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Bill Longman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Monday 30 August |
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> 2010, Paul Hartman |
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> did opine thusly: |
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> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Daniel |
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> Pielmeier<billie@g.o <mailto:billie@g.o>> |
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> wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08.2010 18:06: |
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> On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> Actually, you can: |
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> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.htm |
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> l |
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> (Read the section below "Use a label"): |
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> fstab: |
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> LABEL=ROOT / ext3 defaults |
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> 1 1 |
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> LABEL=BOOT /boot ext3 defaults |
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> 1 2 |
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> LABEL=SWAP swap swap defaults |
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> 0 0 |
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> LABEL=HOME /home ext3 |
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> nosuid,auto 1 2 |
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> This syntax never worked here. Always resulted in |
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> an unbootable system. |
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> Only the /dev/disk/by-label/ syntax works reliably. |
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> Afaik if you are using GRUB LEGACY (0.97) and want to |
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> use LABEL/UUID in |
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> your grub.conf/menu.lst you also need an initrd. I |
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> think with GRUB 2 |
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> (1.98) it is possible without. You don't need an |
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> initrd for LABEL/UUID |
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> in /etc/fstab for both cases. |
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> FWIW I'm using sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 with GPT, labeled |
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> partitions and |
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> no initrd. My kernel has EFI_PARTITION compiled in (no |
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> module). |
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> My fstab looks like this: |
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> LABEL=swap none swap sw |
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> 0 0 |
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> LABEL=boot /boot ext2 defaults,noatime |
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> 1 2 |
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> LABEL=root / ext4 defaults,noatime |
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> 0 1 |
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> LABEL=home /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 |
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> My kernel boot commandline still specified root by device name |
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> /dev/sda2 but otherwise my system works normally so far. :) |
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> Don't listen to nay-sayers. Your fstab will work just fine and |
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> there's nothing |
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> wrong with it. |
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> The LABEL= sysntax has also worked for years and years now on |
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> all grub- |
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> supported filesystems that support volume labels. I don't know |
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> where a |
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> previous poster got the idea from that it is not supported, or |
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> you need an |
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> initrd - I have never used an initrd on Gentoo and have used |
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> that syntax since |
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> forever. |
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> Similar for claims of unreliability by someone else. The only |
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> cause I can |
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> think of is using weird grub patches or some combination of |
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> insane flags. |
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> So I don't have to have the complete path in fstab like this: |
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> /dev/disk/by-label/boot /boot ext2 noatime |
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> 1 2 |
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> /dev/disk/by-label/root / reiserfs defaults 0 1 |
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> /dev/disk/by-label/swap none swap sw 0 0 |
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> /dev/disk/by-label/portage /usr/portage ext3 defaults |
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> 0 1 |
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> /dev/disk/by-label/home /home reiserfs defaults |
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> 1 1 |
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> Can you post a grub.conf file that uses labels? Sort of a example |
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> to look at and go by. |
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> Dale, there are two examples of fstabs in this message (actually |
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> three). But you only want to see those you didn't write. You just need |
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> to put "LABEL=somelabel" in the first column. |
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> -- |
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> Bill Longman |
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That's what I wanted to clarify. I put the whole path but others |
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didn't. I wasn't sure if they meant that literally or if they just |
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shortened it a bit. It looks like it will work either way. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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