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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
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 16:59:29
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42Tke29rPDDJRKhv6ubU2nRXLFmCi8p26yODa9b5RDQ9Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Using UUID for root disk in grub requires initramfs? by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 12:37 PM 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 The kernel init code is able to find a device given its PARTUUID.
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20 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/init/do_mounts.c?h=v4.19.59#n172