From: Mark Rustad <mrustad@mac.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>,
Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>,
linux mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booting without initrd
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:56:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7B0A3459-7DED-403F-9728-3AD03A2CD4B0@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4488368B.5070103@rtr.ca>
On Jun 8, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
> Rahul Karnik wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK Fedora sets up the kernel command line with "root=LABEL=/" in
>> grub.conf and therefore needs the initrd in order to work correctly.
>> If you do not want an initrd, then change this to
>> "root=/dev/<your_disk>" in grub.conf. Note that the reason Fedora
>> uses
>> the LABEL is so you can move disks around in your system without a
>> problem
>
> Heh.. except for people like me, who regularly swap disks around
> to boot from different distros, in which case the LABEL=/ continuously
> causes nothing but grief until I remember to edit it away.
You would like labels a lot better if you took charge and forced the
labels to be something like "FC4-root", "SLES9-root" etc. rather than
the default "/".
--
Mark Rustad, MRustad@mac.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-08 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-07 16:13 Ram Gupta
2006-06-07 18:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-08 17:40 ` Rahul Karnik
2006-06-08 14:39 ` Mark Lord
2006-06-08 17:58 ` David Lang
2006-06-08 19:56 ` Mark Rustad [this message]
2006-06-08 20:32 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-06-09 0:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-09 1:43 ` Paul Dickson
2006-06-09 3:33 ` Joe Korty
2006-06-09 20:44 ` Yaroslav Klyukin
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