Use of labels in grub.conf

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I ran into the same issue when recompiling 2.6.5-1.349 earlier today. I deleted root=LABEL=/ rhgb altogether. I found the fix somewhere on google, not at home so I can't say where, but it was a support forum for a different distro, the issue there was with a 2.6.5 kernel update as well.

Joe

> 
> From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> Date: 2004/05/05 Wed PM 08:59:09 EDT
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Use of labels in grub.conf
> 
> Greetings;
> 
> This is a resend, from my home account, no idea how it was sent thru 
> the work account, which of course bounced...
> 
> My old 233mhz P-II needs all the help it can get, so I was compiling a 
> stripped down kernel.  But I couldn't boot to it (no initrd, just 
> modules) using the root=LABEL=/ in the grub command line.
> 
> Fooled with it for several hours, then decided to use root=/dev/hda8 
> (home of the / partition) instead.  Worked first time.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Or is this a real bug?
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, gene
> 
> 
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