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

[Grant Edwards]

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?

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