From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:49:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:49:39 -0400 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]:32264 "EHLO mailout03.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:49:29 -0400 Date: 15 May 2001 20:57:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <80wQzVHXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh6 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 15.05.01 in : > > > it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the > > > part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time > > > ago. > > > > That's why you want mount-root-by-partition-label, not by device > > Which in itself adds the 'and how does the label tell me what modules to > load' question.. The same way the old root device does: not. Why should it? It doesn't tell you what to eat for lunch either. MfG Kai