Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 00:20:22 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > 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..
For 2.5 with a clean ramfs root / initrd / uuid scan setup I would agree entirely that uuid root is a good thing.
Alan
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