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, Randolph Maa?en <r.maassen60@×××××.com> wrote:
> > 2013/7/2 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
>
> >> It looks like my options are:
> >>
> [...]
> >>
> >>  5) For the drive with the root parition on it switch from a DOS
> >>     parition table to a GPT partition table and use the
> >>     root=PARTUUID=<whatever> kernel option.
> >
> > You don't need to switch to GPT for that. I have a DOS partitioned disk
> and
> > "blkid" prints the LABEL and UUID for each partition.
>
> And you can pass those values to the kernel via  the "root=" parameter?
>
>
Yep.
The G in GPT just means that the type of the partition is stored as
GUID/UUID. The partition ID is a separate value.


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Randolph Maaßen