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 1RB6Jy-00047l-U3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:50:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAFBB21C25F; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D0A21C0F0 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so741736wyf.40 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:48:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=nsjA1ahgONa+jytWmnXb4MIsIW0YBrL37rBwgTgYEiU=; b=moW1kuqTDQApKZvKwtEX/c/dK3+fWjJANA7bTsySBmSzdXZbdQGnmgKRfnKq6EARP2 B0wPrKnE2muIe2PKioDZcDAVYqe4PNX3+kZ1zdfKaZTNqRB21GPlwqLCpXQV0B+Knymz hNl1HjdbF25J/VXT2HE7wpdfCGunau8k7NfvE= Received: by 10.227.29.85 with SMTP id p21mr1624732wbc.84.1317739708474; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:48:28 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.59.193 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 07:48:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1317736959.20875.12.camel@tartarus> From: Paul Hartman Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:48:08 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ms-dvm2ZAq4LC3ZFyi6YfbWyyGA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drives not detected in repeatable order. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d0c4e42e83556e77b11aca210db72be2 On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Grant Edwards w= rote: > On 2011-10-04, Michael A. Koerber wrote: > >> I have found that use of LABEL=3DFOO in /etc/fstab doesn't always solve >> the problem of disks being reassigned during boot. > > That's because fstab isn't used during boot. =A0What "root=3D" setting is > passed to your kernel by your bootloader? =A0Is that using /dev/sda1 or > a label? =A0In order to use a label, I _think_ you need some special magi= c > in an initrd (at least that used to be the case according to what I've > googled). There is something on the gentoo wiki about doing it in an initramfs: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#UUID.2FLABEL_Root_Mounting (I've never tried it)