Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932163AbWBBQvg (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:51:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932169AbWBBQvf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:51:35 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:11680 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932163AbWBBQvf (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:51:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 17:51:28 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jiri Slaby cc: Arjan van de Ven , kavitha s , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue] In-Reply-To: <20060202105338.E921D22AF07@anxur.fi.muni.cz> Message-ID: References: <1138863068.3270.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>, <20060201114845.E41F222AF24@anxur.fi.muni.cz> <20060202105338.E921D22AF07@anxur.fi.muni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 25 >>> > ds: no socket drivers loaded! >>> > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 >>> change root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/XXX. Vanilla doesn't support this... >> >>ehhh?? >>sure it does. >> >>this is not a kernel feature, but an initrd feature, independent on >>which kernel is used (there never was and is not a patch for this in any >>distro kernel I know about) >Ok, thank you for pointing that out. > So does someone have a kernel-side patch for enabling LABEL=? (Is the kernel even able to tell the label of a filesystem, or is that specific to mount(8)?) Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/