Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>
> All the references Google can find for me say that you have to use a
> GPT partition table if you want to specify a boot partition using
> root=PARTUUID=<partition-uuid>.
>
> Does the root=PARTUUID option work for you?
>
> Can you point to some documentation on how you can use
> root=PARTUID=<partition-uuid> with an DOS/MBR partition table?

As Neil alluded to, you can use UUID with MBR (instead of PARTUUID and
GPT). I have DOS/MBR partition table and my kernel commandline looks
like:

root=UUID=1d21fa55-0fa9-4d43-8d41-8b4193900efa ro log_buf_len=1M quiet
rootfstype=ext4 raid=noautodetect

(along with an initramfs)