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 1PFZ4P-0004iJ-8o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:16:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C7BC1C1EA; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0A01C1EA for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:15:42 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,170,1288569600"; d="scan'208";a="228729827" Received: from 213-152-39-90.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 08 Nov 2010 21:15:42 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unknown [192.168.1.101]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C75C6C4F6 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:15:38 +0000 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 (Apple Message framework v1081) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel From: Stroller In-Reply-To: <4CD839D2.5060206@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:15:40 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4CD2E093.5030008@optonline.net> <201011051652.44199.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4CD7D0BB.50606@waagmeester.co.za> <4CD7D598.5030205@optonline.net> <4CD7D96C.8050402@waagmeester.co.za> <4CD839D2.5060206@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Archives-Salt: c91a1508-3522-4e13-b06c-306e184b46f6 X-Archives-Hash: e83b0f964d932949747072f7fa3ab6c3 On 8/11/2010, at 5:56pm, Dale wrote: > ... > I have not been able to get grub to see the LABELS yet but I'm going = to post fstab so that you have a example that is known to work and not = from a guide: >=20 > /dev/disk/by-label/boot /boot ext2 noatime = 1 2 > /dev/disk/by-label/root / reiserfs defaults 0 1 > /dev/disk/by-label/swap none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/disk/by-label/portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults = 0 1 > /dev/disk/by-label/home /home reiserfs defaults 1 = 1 > /dev/disk/by-label/data /data reiserfs defaults 0 = 1 I'm not paying enough attention to know whether your above fastab works = or not, but /dev/disk/by-label/* seems a relatively ugly way of doing = things. I'm pretty sure it's not intended that you use that format, and = I have no idea whether it's supposed to work that way. All the guides say to use the word "LABEL". That's not a variable or = anything - it's the literal word you're supposed to use. I have no idea why a guide should be considered unreliable, but the = below is not fabricated - it is from an actual working system: $ grep -ve ^# /etc/fstab LABEL=3Dboot /boot ext2 noauto,noatime = 1 2 LABEL=3D/ / ext4 noatime = 0 1 LABEL=3Dswap none swap sw = 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,users = 0 0 LABEL=3Dspace /mnt/space ext4 noatime = 0 3 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec = 0 0 $=20 To me this seems cleaner than your format, and it's certainly fewer = characters! Stroller.