Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did 
opine thusly:

> On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Does
> >>
> >> boot=LABEL=<boot_device_label>
> >>
> >> in grub config work for you?
> >
> > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the
> > root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all?
>
> I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or
> so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of
> describing "root=" to the kernel.
>
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/23010-root-label-
> grub-conf.html
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2005-01/0026.html
>
> However:
> http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Using--%22root%3DLABEL%3Dxxxx%22-in-grub.conf-p
> 21909347.html http://tinyurl.com/2u4srg4
>
> Stroller.


All the major distros I've seen it on also use initrds though (rare in gentoo-
land). I have no idea how it all works, I just know how to type it on a RHEL 
box.

Elsewhere in the thread someone mentioned that this syntax relies on an 
initrd, and I suspect he may be correct.


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