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From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order.
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:59:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8B2D7D.4060107@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGo3Wep+SVVhz2Nh=8peXt=vtD0Pdp5WdVR71wjE5X0W9a6LXg@mail.gmail.com>

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Am 04.10.2011 16:47, schrieb Spidey:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:29, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com
> <mailto:grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2011-10-04, Michael A. Koerber <mak@ll.mit.edu
>     <mailto:mak@ll.mit.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     > 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

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03 18:40 [gentoo-user] Hard drives not detected in repeatable order Grant Edwards
2011-10-03 18:47 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-03 18:48 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-10-03 18:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-03 19:03   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-03 19:28     ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-03 19:47       ` Michael Mol
2011-10-03 19:49       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-03 21:37       ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-04  2:25     ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-04  2:45       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 15:43         ` bill.longman
2011-10-04  3:15       ` Dale
2011-10-04  4:54         ` Spidey
2011-10-04  5:00           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04  5:02           ` Adam Carter
2011-10-04  5:09             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04  5:29               ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-04  5:36                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04  5:10             ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-04  5:20               ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04  5:25                 ` Adam Carter
2011-10-04  5:28                   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 14:23                   ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 14:18       ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 15:12         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 14:02     ` Michael A. Koerber
2011-10-04 14:29       ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 14:47         ` Spidey
2011-10-04 15:59           ` Florian Philipp [this message]
2011-10-05  5:53             ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-05 13:29             ` Michael A. Koerber
2011-10-05 14:34               ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-05 18:54               ` walt
2011-10-05 19:57                 ` pk
2011-10-05 20:31                 ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-05 20:33                 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-04 14:48         ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-04 15:01           ` Dale
2011-10-03 18:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mol
2011-10-03 19:01 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-03 19:15   ` Bill Longman
2011-10-03 19:34   ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-03 20:13     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-03 19:38   ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2011-10-03 20:20     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-03 19:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2011-10-03 19:54 ` Mark Knecht

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