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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 20:09:06
Message-Id: NoMmRdvD68RktuFFh74dfB@RmYT8JZEOUWoaxVd5XpmU
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore by Jeremi Piotrowski
1 Many, many thanks!
2 That works indeed.
3
4 Helmut
5
6 On 06/25/2016 09:19:47 PM, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
7 > On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 08:33:31PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
8 > >
9 > > So, I came up with root=UUID=uuid_number of the root file system.
10 > >
11 > > But to my surprise I now got a kernel panic
12 > > syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)
13 > >
14 > > So, please tell me what I'm missing?
15 >
16 > root=UUID lines are normally interpreted by the initramfs to find the
17 > right device to mount. If you don't use one, the kernel pretty much
18 > only
19 > supports root=/dev/<name> or root=PARTUUID identifiers (check kernel
20 > source file init/do_mounts.c:182,207 for details).
21 >
22 > You can find your PARTUUID using `blkid` or `lsblk -o +PARTUUID`.
23 >
24 >
25 >
26 >