From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964982AbWFHUco (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:32:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964984AbWFHUcn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:32:43 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:65414 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964982AbWFHUcn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:32:43 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: booting without initrd Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:32:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <728201270606070913g2a6b23bbj9439168a1d8dbca8@mail.gmail.com> <4488368B.5070103@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: agrajag.inprovide.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.15 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pEmaCn6hqaQoF01TYs4seXJhyBw= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord 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/" 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