On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote: > Am 04.10.2011 07:09, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> By the way, is it possible to use LABELs without and initrd? I'll start >>>> using an initrd before too long, I'll also mess with decorations, but for >>>> now, I'd like to keep my setup simple, no initrd. >>> >>> AND what bootloaders can use LABEL/UUID? Can grub's device.map use them? >> >> I believe grub uses its own partition scheme (hd(0,0)), so fstab >> should not matter to it unless you use the root= option. But even with >> the root= option, grub can understand labels, and so grub2 (I'm using >> it with labels right now). >> >> LILO I don't know, I haven't used it in years. >> >> Regards. > > In my experience, grub's partition numbering is more stable than /dev. > hd(0,*) tends to be the device on which grub is installed, even if > device numbering in /dev changes. > > The more tricky stuff is defining the root=/dev/* kernel parameter. > Fortunately, starting with 2.6.37, you can use a UUID here as well (but > not label, that support was removed a few years ago): > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b5af921ec02333e943efb59aca4f56b78fc0e100
Mmmh. This overrides the root option from grub? Then it will also work in LILO. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
