Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Stroller wrote:
>
> On 9 Feb 2009, at 07:56, Stroller wrote:
>>> ...
>>> You may have done this but just in case, you did use the tools to set
>>> the label on the drive right?  tune2fs does it for ext2 and ext3.  I'm
>>> not sure about ext4.
>>
>> Good question! I thought for a moment that the above demonstrated
>> that I had done so, but of course it is necessary to boot from a
>> LiveCD instead:
>>
>> root@sysresccd /root % mount -v -L root /mnt/gentoo
>> mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sda6
>>       I will try type ext4
>> /dev/sda6 on /mnt/gentoo type ext4 (rw)
>> root@sysresccd /root %
>
> I should have said:
>
> Thank you for the suggestion, though.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>

Your welcome.  Here is some more info.

                                               cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.14.1)

                                                    Disk Drive: /dev/hdb
                                              Size: 80026361856 bytes,
80.0 GB
                                    Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63  
Cylinders: 9729

      Name              Flags             Part Type       FS
Type                   [Label]                Size (MB)
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      hdb1                                 Primary        Linux
ext3                [backup]                80023.75


That partition is labeled "backup" on there.  It is a drive I am not
using so I could umount it to set the label. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)