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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:26:16
Message-Id: 4C77E71B.1010102@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 08/27/2010 09:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 >> Actually, you can:
4 >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html
5
6 And this is similar to the syntax in the kernel's
7 Documentation/intel_txt.txt file.
8
9 >> (Read the section below "Use a label"):
10 >>
11 >> fstab:
12 >> LABEL=ROOT / ext3 defaults 1 1
13 >> LABEL=BOOT /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
14 >> LABEL=SWAP swap swap defaults 0 0
15 >> LABEL=HOME /home ext3 nosuid,auto 1 2
16 >
17 > This syntax never worked here. Always resulted in an unbootable system.
18 > Only the /dev/disk/by-label/ syntax works reliably.
19
20 Are you using ReiserFS, Nikos? It works wonders with ext.