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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using UUID for root disk in grub requires initramfs?
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:20:15
Message-Id: CAC=wYCHVBfv6mHjAP2mAu40mY-WNDjkqLK7PPMjf9qcTLKoMPg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Using UUID for root disk in grub requires initramfs? by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:37 AM Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
2
3 > On 2019-07-19 20:58, Adam Carter wrote:
4 >
5 > > I experimented found the following worked in /etc/default/grub;
6 > >
7 > > GRUB_DEVICE="PARTUUID=d3554d49-02"
8 > >
9 > > Which writes grub.cfg as;
10 > > linux /vmlinuz-5.2.0-gentoo root=PARTUUID=d3554d49-02 ro
11 > > init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd iommu=pt raid=noautodetect
12 > >
13 > > PARTUUID looked up with blkid. No initramfs required :)
14 >
15 > I don't get this. blkid is userspace. The _kernel_ needs to know what
16 > the root fs device is, before it even starts pid 1.
17 >
18
19 Sorry I was misleading by not using chronological order. The steps are;
20 1. Use blkid to look up the PARTUUID of the root partition
21 2. Add this to /etc/default/grub as GRUB_DEVICE="PARTUUID=d3554d49-02"
22 3. run grub-mkconfig
23 4. Reboot