LABEL in grub.conf
Michael Schwendt
fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Mon Jan 3 17:47:23 UTC 2005
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:34:22 -0500, Bill Matthews wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been reading some of the other posts about restore procedures and
> re-install grub.
>
> One question I had is in /boot/grub.conf:
>
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/
> initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp.img
>
> What is the "Label=/"? How is it created, updated, etc? It works
> fine normally, but in some situations of changing drives, etc, it
> seems to get messed up. And I have to change root=/dev/sda1 or
> whatever.
It is a partition label, created with the e2label tool (or
alternatively with tune2fs.
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