[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote:
>> On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>>> On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>> Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy.  That way, you
>>>> won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to
>>>> change your /etc/fstab and grub conf.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, give your partitions Labels and reconfigure /etc/fstab to
>>> use those.
>>> Then you don't have to worry about the changes to the device-names.
>>
>> I second Joost's recommendation. I don't think you can use labels on the
>> kernel command line, so your grub will have to know for sure which
>> device to boot.
>
> Actually, you can:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html
>
> (Read the section below "Use a label"):
>
> fstab:
> LABEL=ROOT          /         ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=BOOT          /boot     ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=SWAP          swap      swap    defaults        0 0
> LABEL=HOME          /home     ext3    nosuid,auto     1 2

This syntax never worked here.  Always resulted in an unbootable system. 
  Only the /dev/disk/by-label/ syntax works reliably.