On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ok, i've managed to lose why the above doesn't work, but > can someone explain why, if i decide to recompile my kernel > to build ext3 support directly in, i can no longer refer to > my root partition with "LABEL=/", but *must* use the special > device file name? Because in the case of initrd, your root partition is mounted via "mount" and then pivot_root is used to pivot the tree around the mount point, so that the initrd lands in /initrd (which subsequently is unmounted and discarded). When you build the filesystem into the kernel, the kernel does the mount, and it doesn't understand anything about labels. Regards, Billl Rugolsky
