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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Can you point to some documentation on how you can use |
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>>> root=PARTUID=<partition-uuid> with an DOS/MBR partition table? |
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>> As Neil alluded to, you can use UUID with MBR (instead of PARTUUID and |
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>> GPT). I have DOS/MBR partition table and my kernel commandline looks |
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>> like: |
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>> root=UUID=1d21fa55-0fa9-4d43-8d41-8b4193900efa ro log_buf_len=1M quiet |
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>> rootfstype=ext4 raid=noautodetect |
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>> (along with an initramfs) |
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> Yes, we've already discussed that if you have an initrd (or |
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> initramfs), and an 'init' program that handles it, you can use |
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> filesystem labels and filesystem uuids. |
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> The option we were discussing in the posting to which you replied is |
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> that of using the root=PARTUUID method which is handled directly by |
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> the kernel. |
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Ah, sorry, I missed that detail. I thought I was helping to clear up |
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confusion, when in fact I was the confused one! :) |
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