Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423029AbWBBGwA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 01:52:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423039AbWBBGwA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 01:52:00 -0500 Received: from vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net ([216.142.194.234]:22765 "EHLO vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423029AbWBBGv7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 01:51:59 -0500 Subject: Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue] From: Arjan van de Ven To: Bernd Petrovitsch Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Jiri Slaby , kavitha s , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1138810616.16643.30.camel@tara.firmix.at> References: <20060201114845.E41F222AF24@anxur.fi.muni.cz> <1138810616.16643.30.camel@tara.firmix.at> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:51:47 +0100 Message-Id: <1138863107.3270.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:16 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:14 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > [...] > > >change root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/XXX. Vanilla doesn't support this... > > > > > is there a kernel patch that does allow it? > > Yes, in RedHat's/Fedora's kernels since ages. wrong. there is NO kernel patch for this. Not in RHs and not in Fedora's kernel. Never was either. it's 100% done in the initrd. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/