> >     > I have found that use of LABEL=FOO in /etc/fstab doesn't always solve
> >     > the problem of disks being reassigned during boot.
> > 
> >     That's because fstab isn't used during boot.  What "root=" setting is
> >     passed to your kernel by your bootloader?  Is that using /dev/sda1 or
> >     a label?  In order to use a label, I _think_ you need some special magic
> >     in an initrd (at least that used to be the case according to what I've
> >     googled).
> > 
> > 
> > That's my doubt. Last time I've read about, you needed some script to
> > "load" the labels.
> > 
> > Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey)
> 
> You cannot use labels with the root= parameters. That was provided as
> some kind of hack a few years ago but has been removed since. You either
> need to use an initramfs for labels or resort to UUIDs. See
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b5af921ec02333e943efb59aca4f56b78fc0e100

Just tried root=PARTUUID=....  failed.  Checked my genblk.c and the
changes don't appear in the 2.6.36 or 2.6.39 kernels on my system.  When
did (does) the PARTUUID syntax support get released?  

tnx,

Mike