kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 works

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Ricardo Veguilla wrote:
> Well, if I were talking about a Linux dedicated drive (and I guess you
> mean dedicated to a particular linux distribution) why would I need to
> change anything? Obviously if you are dealing with an static setup,
> there is no need for labels. When you start changing stuff and moving it
> around is when labels become really useful, I have a linux dedicated
> drive with several linux distributions in different partitions and using
> labels really simplifies working with them.   

Than your case is rather specific case and you belong to group of, hm, 
let be generous here, maybe 0.001% of total Linux population?  Yeah, I 
know, now there will be 10 more guys and girls arguing that there's more 
of you, but if you folk are loud, it still doesn't mean there's more 
than 0.001% of you out there.  Not to mention that people who do have 
multiple distros installed are usually above average users that should 
be capable of organizing things so that they can live perfectly well 
without use of labels.  Actually, I do belong to this very same 0.001% 
group.  And I don't use labels.  I don't have any need for them :-P.  If 
they were obsoleted and completely removed one day in the future, I 
wouldn't even notice.

Generic case would be what most people use.  Either one distribution on 
dedicated disk (mostly servers), or one disk shared between single 
Windoze partition and single Linux distro (mostly home machines, some 
work PCs), or two disks one for single Windblows version one for single 
Linux distro (more rare case of home PCs and work PCs category).  People 
who don't fall to any of those categories are rather rare.  For most 
people (out of those who noticed there's such thing as labels), not 
using labels (in the form they exist today) would simplify things in 
their lives.  And having persistent device names (for example, like 
those on Solaris) in Linux, would solve most common problems with 
changing device names (without creating new problems, like labels do).

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