From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964945AbWFHT4S (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:56:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964955AbWFHT4S (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:56:18 -0400 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.177]:31950 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964945AbWFHT4R (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:56:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4488368B.5070103@rtr.ca> References: <728201270606070913g2a6b23bbj9439168a1d8dbca8@mail.gmail.com> <4488368B.5070103@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7B0A3459-7DED-403F-9728-3AD03A2CD4B0@mac.com> Cc: Rahul Karnik , Ram Gupta , linux mailing-list Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Mark Rustad Subject: Re: booting without initrd Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:56:06 -0500 To: Mark Lord X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/" 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