Hi! On Sun 2016-08-14 18:17:39, Tom Yan wrote: > 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. It is the case in v4.6. We had change hda->sda for SATA drives long time ago, it was stable since that. > > 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. I'd rather not mess with initrd, and initrd was not required in the past. kernel-parameters.txt only mentions UUID= in connection with resume. Is the documentation correct? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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