A curse on LABEL=

ne... akabi at speakeasy.net
Sat Apr 10 12:58:09 UTC 2004


On Apr 10, 2004 at 13:02, Timothy Murphy in a soothing rage wrote:
[...]
>The previous entry in grub.conf for 2.6.4 had root=/dev/hda6 .
>Admittedly there was an old entry with root=LABEL=/
>but it is not clear to me why the install process chose to copy this.
The 'make install' process uses the default entry as a
template for making the new grub stanza.

[...]
>That was just my point.
>I don't _want_ to use the "LABEL feature" -
Then change all occurences of 'root=LABEL=/' in your
grub.conf and this should help. I am not sure whether
FC kernel upgrades use 'root=LABEL=/'. Experiment.

>and neither, in my estimation, do the vast majority of Linux users -
>but it is forced on me unless I take positive steps to remove it.
'root=LABEL=/' does not bother me one bit...

N.Emile...
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