Once upon a time, Steven P. Ulrick <ulrick2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Hello, Everyone :) > I was kind of confused by the above statement. So I looked at my /etc/fstab, > and I found the following: > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > I am running Fedora Core 2, with the latest Fedora Core 2 kernel. And the kernel doesn't do the mount. There is an initial ramdisk image that is used to do the mount-by-LABEL bit (as well as LVM and software RAID startup and other things). It is possible to use the same initrd creation for non-FC kernels; just use mkinitrd. There is nothing "magic" in the Red Hat built kernels. Also, what is in /etc/fstab doesn't really matter for initially mounting the root filesystem. What matters is what is on the kernel command line, usually set in /boot/grub/grub.conf. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
