On 14 August 2016 at 18:07, Tom Yan <tom.ty89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14 August 2016 at 18:01, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Since SATA support was merged, certainly since v2.4, and from way >> before /dev/disk/by-id existed. > > I have no idea how "SATA before USB" had been done in the past (if it > was ever a thing in the kernel), but that has not been the case since > at least v3.0 AFAIR. > >> >> People may not run udev, and you can't use /dev/disk/by-id on kernel >> command line. >> > > No, but you can always use root=PARTUUID=, that's built into the > kernel. (root=UUID= requires udev or so though). Silly me. root=UUID= has nothing to do with udev, but `blkid` in util-linux. At least that's how it's done in Arch/mkinitcpio. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
