Re: grub root=/dev/hd$v$n not root=LABEL=/ why

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> 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


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