From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HRBP8-0005At-9s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:07:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2DI3VN3030074; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:03:31 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.149.33.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2DI3VAM030040 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:03:31 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E1D4C19E for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:03:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Drive asignments for sata drives Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:31:44 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <45F5823D.2080708@singnet.com.sg> <45F669F2.30302@singnet.com.sg> <20070313140622.GA18489@v.igoro.us> In-Reply-To: <20070313140622.GA18489@v.igoro.us> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703131731.44114.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: d6575c55-7656-4a08-9aec-30bb6896c3bd X-Archives-Hash: 91c192dd050f342e3b26f9d56d0b11cb On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:06:22 dustin@v.igoro.us wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:08:02PM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote: > > I hope one day grub will allow "root=UUID=something" then the problem > > is completely solved. > > Not to be picky, but it's the kernel that parses that command line -- > grub just supplies it to the kernel. Are you sure? It seems to me that the "root=" parameter is to grub, to tell it where to find the kernel to which to pass the remaining arguments. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list