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From: Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:09:51
Message-Id: 4C786EC5.90807@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08.2010 18:06:
2 > On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Actually, you can:
5 >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html
6 >>
7 >> (Read the section below "Use a label"):
8 >>
9 >> fstab:
10 >> LABEL=ROOT / ext3 defaults 1 1
11 >> LABEL=BOOT /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
12 >> LABEL=SWAP swap swap defaults 0 0
13 >> LABEL=HOME /home ext3 nosuid,auto 1 2
14 >
15 > This syntax never worked here. Always resulted in an unbootable system.
16 > Only the /dev/disk/by-label/ syntax works reliably.
17 >
18
19 Afaik if you are using GRUB LEGACY (0.97) and want to use LABEL/UUID in
20 your grub.conf/menu.lst you also need an initrd. I think with GRUB 2
21 (1.98) it is possible without. You don't need an initrd for LABEL/UUID
22 in /etc/fstab for both cases.
23
24 --
25 Daniel Pielmeier

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>