> From: Jan Hudec [mailto:bulb@ucw.cz] > ... cramfs images ... linuxrc ... mkinitrd ... Cogent, helpful, thank you. I remembering seeing a friend stumble across how `make install` calls mkinitrd, I'll try to rediscover that. > Perhaps someone should state this in FAQ: > root=LABEL=/ is implemented in initrd > and thus will only work when booting with initrd. Please note, that answer to this FAQ is not yet intelligible to someone as breathtakingly ignorant as I am. > http://www.googlegroups.com/?as_q=linux-kernel%20root%3DLABEL That link chokes here, but: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=linux-kernel+root%3DLABEL yields four posts which include: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=20021228144949.E2389@schatzie.adilger.int Newsgroups: linux.kernel Date: 2002-12-28 14:00:11 PST Subject: Re: FAQ: how to boot with root=LABEL=/ From: Andreas Dilger (adilger@clusterfs.com) ... One option is to just give the right device for root, ... another is to add a patch (posted to l-k about 1.5 years ago) which added kernel support for this, and ... a third is to add an initrd which figures out the label in user space and uses that to mount the root fs ... > ... Possibly we're telling me Red Hat 9 seems to be exercising the third option here. Pat LaVarre __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
