From: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: booting without initrd
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:32:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xlks7e6d8.fsf@agrajag.inprovide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4488368B.5070103@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> writes:
> 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.
Yes, there's an old saying that "grief comes with a red hat".
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-08 20:32 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
2006-06-08 20:32 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
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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