Hello

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 6/4/2011 3:00 PM, Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata wrote:
>
>> Hello folks, how are you?
>>
>> I'm facing an interesting problem and i think that the solution is simple,
>> but i'd like to discuss it on the list.
>>
>> The MeeGo kernel doesn't use an initrd, to make it faster on boot, i
>> guess.
>> The problem i'm facing is that when i install the system on a netbook with
>> a usb disk the order of the disks change and i have problems booting after
>> the installation. If i change the boot loader information and plug a
>> pen-drive at boot time, the order change again.
>>
>> Using UUID of disks solve the problem, but without a initrd on the kernel
>> the system cannot boot, since UUID mounting is available only with initrd.
>> (also LABEL mounting)
>>
>> We use a custom kernel here and we use grub boot loader, but this problem
>> may happened on other boot loaders. There is one solution to use GUID
>> without initrd:
>> http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/481167-mounting-root-partition-uuid-no-initrd-needed.html
>>
>
> odd; our installer, bootloader and kernel configuration actually should not
> allow this to happen....
>
> can you reproduce this with the meego reference set of these ?
>
> I will try to reproduce this problem with default MeeGo image, the thing is
that i didn't receive the hardware samples where this problem is ocurring.

Can the developers point to where the sollution os fixed? Also, one question
is kickstart out of the installation process?

Thanks



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Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata

International Syst S/A
Metasys Tecnologia
Software Engineer Metasys MeeGo Team

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