Pascal Hambourg wrote: > The kernel cannot use UUIDs to mount the root filesystem. Using UUIDs > requires an initramfs.
I forgot to mention that UUID is not meant to be used (only) by the kernel or the initrd, but by GRUB - to find the boot md - no idea how it works but it works. Those machines were running lilo and grub1 and now grub2 - I never looked into it. There is a process to upgrade kernel and it works fine. Perhaps you are right that we need to plan doing it "the modern" way, but I doubt that one would agree to change partition types etc regards
