From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>,
kavitha s <wellspringkavitha@yahoo.co.in>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue]
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:55:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138971350.3086.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602021750510.13212@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:51 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>> > ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> >>> > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
> >>> change root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/XXX. Vanilla doesn't support this...
> >>
> >>ehhh??
> >>sure it does.
> >>
> >>this is not a kernel feature, but an initrd feature, independent on
> >>which kernel is used (there never was and is not a patch for this in any
> >>distro kernel I know about)
> >Ok, thank you for pointing that out.
> >
>
> So does someone have a kernel-side patch for enabling LABEL=?
I'm not aware of one existing.
> (Is the
> kernel even able to tell the label of a filesystem, or is that specific to
> mount(8)?)
currently the kernel is fully unaware of any labels, other than having
the space reserved in the various filesystem on disk metadata.
This is one of those things that is better done in userspace really.....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-03 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-01 6:59 Linux Issue kavitha s
2006-02-01 7:27 ` Andre Bender
2006-02-01 11:48 ` root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue] Jiri Slaby
2006-02-01 16:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-01 16:16 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-02-01 16:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] ` <20060201124151.5b4c0435.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-02-01 17:41 ` sean
2006-02-02 6:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-02 8:19 ` J.A. Magallon
2006-02-02 10:55 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-02-02 14:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-02 15:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-02 6:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-02 10:53 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-02-02 16:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-03 12:55 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-02-03 13:45 ` Samer Azmy
2006-02-03 16:58 ` Fawad Lateef
2006-02-03 17:03 ` Fawad Lateef
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