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Re: Use of labels in grub.conf

From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
To: gene heskett verizon net, For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list redhat com>
Cc:
Subject: Re: Use of labels in grub.conf
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:48:03 -0400

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:59:09PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> What is it that allows the default FC2T3 kernel to use labels while 
> its booting, but when I duplicate the grub entry but with the newer 
> vmlinuz name, I have to use root=/dev/hda8?

Its in the initrd - the boot time root is the init ram disk, that uses
user space to find the label, so you need to attach the right ramdisk
modules set.

References:
- Use of labels in grub.conf
  - From: Gene Heskett

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