Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Rustad <> | Subject | Re: booting without initrd | Date | Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:56:06 -0500 |
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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/<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.
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
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