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: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:34:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8C6AF0.1070105@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317821372.5014.2.camel@tartarus>
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Am 05.10.2011 15:29, schrieb Michael A. Koerber:
>> > > 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
2.6.37: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_37#line-106
I definitely see the changes in gentoo-sources-2.6.39-r3.
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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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
2011-10-05 5:53 ` Walter Dnes
2011-10-05 13:29 ` Michael A. Koerber
2011-10-05 14:34 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
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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