John R Pierce wrote:
To start, you could either label a filesystem as '/' or, you can just
change that root= line to point at a real filesystem.
what WOULD be the 'real device' in the case of a USB thumbdrive?
since its the boot device, would it necessarily be enumerated first,
hence always /dev/sda ? or would it be after any other /dev/sd? that
happen to be present on the system, which would mean that its device
name is quite unpredictable?
OTOH, using LABEL=/ could be very problematic if there are any OTHER
devices present with a filesystem that has LABEL=/ ... I'd wonder if
you wouldn't want to use LABEL=USBROOT or some such (and label the USB
stick accordingly).
based on the other emails from Jerry recently, I'd assume that the usb
drive is the only mass storage device he has in the machine, so /dev/sda
should be predictable. But then, isnt this the exact issue that Labels'
are supposed to resolve ?
Your recommendations of labeling the partition with something that is
specific to the device ( label=USBROOT or label=USBKEYOSROOT ) might be
a good 'middle path' here. Might need to do something similar for the
swap and then sanity check /etc/fstab
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
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