Use of labels in grub.conf

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu May 6 01:11:31 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 05 May 2004 21:03, William Hooper wrote:
>Gene Heskett said:
>> 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
>
>                                                    ^^^^^^^^^
>
>> What is it that allows the default FC2T3 kernel to use labels
>> while its booting,
>
>IIRC using labels requires an initrd.
>
No wonder I've had such poor luck with that!  I've never used an 
initrd in my own kernel builds.  I figure thats 
what /lib/modules/version_number is for.

>--
>William Hooper

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