What is this "root=LABEL=/" stuff?

[Douglas Phillipson]

So does anyone else have this problem?

Doug P

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> 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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