Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750724AbWBBLCP (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:02:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750730AbWBBLCP (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:02:15 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:24714 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbWBBLCO (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:02:14 -0500 Subject: Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue] From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "J.A. Magallon" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Jan Engelhardt , Jiri Slaby , kavitha s , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060202091900.469e7394@werewolf.auna.net> References: <20060201114845.E41F222AF24@anxur.fi.muni.cz> <1138810616.16643.30.camel@tara.firmix.at> <1138863107.3270.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060202091900.469e7394@werewolf.auna.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:55:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1138877728.12822.5.camel@tara.firmix.at> 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: 1414 Lines: 39 On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 09:19 +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote: > On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:51:47 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > 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. Oooops, sorry. s/RedHat's\/Fedora's kernels/RedHa\/Fedora/ > Isn't this a matter of the bootloader ? No, because it is merely used as a kernel parameter (which led me to the false conclusion that it is done within the kernel) and the kernel either mounts the root filesystem (without initrd) or it is handled within the initrd (if you have one). Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/