What is this "root=LABEL=/" stuff?
Douglas Phillipson
dougp at intermind.net
Tue Apr 6 23:55:43 UTC 2004
Steve wrote:
> Does anyone know what kernel option allows the kernel to recognise
> partition labels ? I had recompiled a stock kernel earlier this week and
> had the exact same problem - after compile and reboot the kernel no longer
> recognised root=LABEL=/ as a valid option and I had to replace this with
> the physical root device in fstab and grub.conf
>
> The drives are definatly labeled and all I can think of is that there must
> be an option somewhere in the kernel to tell it to recognise device
> labels. Anyone know if this is the case and how to re-enable it ?
>
Yes, I'm still having the problem. Running e2label /dev/sda2 yeilds "/"
and my fstab says:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
So they apparently match but Still won't boot unless I change the
menu.lst to /dev/hda2
Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
Thanks
Doug P
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