From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWTRA-0004sw-0C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:32:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2C93E034F; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout06.t-online.de (mailout06.t-online.de [194.25.134.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4DCE034F for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fwd09.aul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1LWTR7-0005T6-02; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:32:21 +0100 Received: from [192.168.255.127] (r27glQZlwh8SCtGqb4vzkCbQvXCEidg79iVmtbwoSlcyVq7oWDXEAGThyaZZPz4ZZL@[217.227.8.168]) by fwd09.t-online.de with esmtp id 1LWTQv-20AgG80; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:32:09 +0100 Message-ID: <4990062A.3010907@t-online.de> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:32:10 +0100 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: r27glQZlwh8SCtGqb4vzkCbQvXCEidg79iVmtbwoSlcyVq7oWDXEAGThyaZZPz4ZZL X-TOI-MSGID: 5fd5abd3-3f7f-4c1a-ba13-cafaa8056b21 X-Archives-Salt: e736eb47-41f0-423d-9e38-dfbb00b74e21 X-Archives-Hash: b3af82853aebf10455edd4ccbe9cc80b >> >> It would appear that you need an initrd/initramfs to use this. >> > > Ah! Many thanks. I will live without this shortcut, then, I think. > If you, like me, prefere to compile your own kernel, there's still an easy way to create a initrd for your kernel: with genkernel I use this command to compile my pre-configured kernel genkernel --no-clean --no-mrproper \ --makeopts=-j2 --loglevel=5 --install --symlink all To include support for disk labels use the switch --disklabel