Use of labels in grub.conf

[Brian Gerst]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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?
> 

LABEL=xxx is handled by the initrd created by mkinitrd.  Ext2 must be 
built in to the kernel for it to work.

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				Brian Gerst