On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 05:58:07PM -0600, Paul Claessen wrote: > found the same LABEL=/ 'thingees' back in /ect/fstab : > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > My first question is a general one: What is this LABEL=/ all about, what does it do? > I did quite some research, but it appears to be a secret. It's so secret, it's documented right there in "man fstab"... > I built kernel-2.4.20, followed all the steps for compiling and installing it. > The installation scripts added a new entry to the grub config file with the > same `root=LABEL=/' setting. > > Everything seems okay, but when I boot that kernel I eventually get the following error (during init) > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" on 00:00 The mainline kernels don't have the patch to handle mount-by-label, but the Red Hat kernels do. > I tried editing (during boot) the grub entry and replace the LABEL=/ with /dev/hda4 This is the right thing to do. > when I do that the system gets a whole lot further, UNTIL it needs to > write to various files in /var: it will then complain 'no such file or > directory' for the various files. Sure you didn't fiddle too much with your /etc/fstab ? john -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
