From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RAxj8-0006bN-EV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:39:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 011A421C134; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 05:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 796A821C217 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 05:36:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so144419wwg.10 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:36:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2P8A5hnQKs0xHkzz22WgmfVwzoFnjWF6rurZS17zbA4=; b=s+vviliY8G9s2IY1mHexc+BwvkWq2UZk1aEBj9rQw5bvdZeVeTpouUJemX7XSI9Lhg 4ca0sVW898d1fGVCHgIJNM02hgvy10D+oJgq8U9YNBQshm+LWthxxPV3nASVlmp+nOTk ONgK/a+6Tx5nRpoC2L9DpPnc8kXwntLfNWVM8= 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 Received: by 10.216.179.7 with SMTP id g7mr567858wem.64.1317706616748; Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.132.80 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:36:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E8A99D5.4080205@binarywings.net> References: <20111004022532.GC3367@waltdnes.org> <4E8A7A66.7060601@gmail.com> <4E8A99D5.4080205@binarywings.net> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:36:56 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order. From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a224cc77d24722646e41185def500eb7 On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Florian Philipp wr= ote: > Am 04.10.2011 07:09, schrieb Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s: >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Adam Carter wro= te: >>>> By the way, is it possible to use LABELs without and initrd? I'll star= t >>>> using an initrd before too long, I'll also mess with decorations, but = for >>>> now, I'd like to keep my setup simple, no initrd. >>> >>> AND what bootloaders can use LABEL/UUID? Can grub's device.map use them= ? >> >> I believe grub uses its own partition scheme (hd(0,0)), so fstab >> should not matter to it unless you use the root=3D option. But even with >> the root=3D option, grub can understand labels, and so grub2 (I'm using >> it with labels right now). >> >> LILO I don't know, I haven't used it in years. >> >> Regards. > > In my experience, grub's partition numbering is more stable than /dev. > hd(0,*) tends to be the device on which grub is installed, even if > device numbering in /dev changes. > > The more tricky stuff is defining the root=3D/dev/* kernel parameter. > Fortunately, starting with 2.6.37, you can use a UUID here as well (but > not label, that support was removed a few years ago): > http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=3Dco= mmitdiff;h=3Db5af921ec02333e943efb59aca4f56b78fc0e100 Mmmh. This overrides the root option from grub? Then it will also work in L= ILO. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico