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From: Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting the rootfs by UUID?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:06:57
Message-Id: AANLkTikR_j7x9r9qFNzGBmj2CXv_6Crgi+xULx=w+4kR@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting the rootfs by UUID? by Nils Larsson
1 Nils Larsson <nisselarsson@××××.se>:
2 > On Friday 21 January 2011 04:09:12 walt wrote:
3 >> Has anyone managed to use that UUID feature to tell the kernel where to
4 >> find the rootfs?
5 >
6 > You have to use a initramfs, see:
7 > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#UUID.2FLABEL_Root_Mounting
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9 Starting from kernel-2.6.37 [1,2] this is possible without an intramfs
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11 [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_37#head-da4cb5f727d0f3b8fac1b23c097e15c3b49ff793
12 [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b5af921ec02333e943efb59aca4f56b78fc0e100
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15 Daniel Pielmeier

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