Use of labels in grub.conf

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:59:09PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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?

Its in the initrd - the boot time root is the init ram disk, that uses
user space to find the label, so you need to attach the right ramdisk
modules set.