From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551A61381F3 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 100B3E0A96; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA453E0A4F for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1644433D3D7 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.171 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.171 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-2.362, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.009, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HZjhPIS7RwaO for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DC5F33BDD7 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uu2Jl-0006Kx-2H for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:16:33 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:16:33 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:16:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20130702150819.GD3387@server> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 1a933b56-bf60-4fb1-8e34-3672ba64f001 X-Archives-Hash: 0d549d27a8c2bc57683a754f6c1af691 On 2013-07-02, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:42:15PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> You don't need to switch to GPT for that. I have a DOS partitioned disk and >>> "blkid" prints the LABEL and UUID for each partition. >> >> And you can pass those values to the kernel via the "root=" parameter? > > That still requires an initrd/initramfs, iirc. The PARTUUID= parition specifier format is handled directly by kernel code, so I don't see why it should require an initrd (unless the UUID values for MBR partitions aren't actually something the kernel knows about and are something made up from whole cloth by the blkid program) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ... I have read the at INSTRUCTIONS ... gmail.com