Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did
> opine thusly:
>
>
>> I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or
>> so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of
>> describing "root=" to the kernel.
>>
>> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/23010-root-label-
>> grub-conf.html
>> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2005-01/0026.html
>>
>> However:
>> http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Using--%22root%3DLABEL%3Dxxxx%22-in-grub.conf-p
>> 21909347.html http://tinyurl.com/2u4srg4
>>
>> Stroller.
>>
>
> All the major distros I've seen it on also use initrds though (rare in gentoo-
> land). I have no idea how it all works, I just know how to type it on a RHEL
> box.
>
> Elsewhere in the thread someone mentioned that this syntax relies on an
> initrd, and I suspect he may be correct.
>
>
>

I tried using labels with the old grub a while back and it didn't work.  
Labels in fstab works fine tho.  We may have to wait on the new grub to 
get finished.

Dale

:-)  :-)