Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order

[Randolph Maaßen]

2013/7/2 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>

> On 2013-07-02, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:16:15 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> >
> >> 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)
> >
> > MBRs don't have PARTUUIDs do they? Don't confuse them with filesystem
> > UUIDs as used in fstab.
>
> No, blkid does not print a "PARTUUID" value with an MBR. In only prints
> "UUID" values, which as you noted, are _filesystem_ UUIDs.  If you
> want to use a filesystem UUID to locate the root partition, you need
> an initramfs/initrd which contains an 'init' program that finds the
> filesystem with the specified UUID, mounts that filesystem, and then
> does a root_pivot.
>
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SCREW ME! Still messing around with these IDs.

Sorry for disturbance.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Randolph Maaßen