Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:58:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Lang <> | Subject | Re: booting without initrd |
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On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, 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.
not to mention the fact that the label checking code only checks the first several drives (I don't know how many, but I know that it won't find a label on sdq :-)
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