Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750756AbWBCMz7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 07:55:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750761AbWBCMz7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 07:55:59 -0500 Received: from vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net ([216.142.194.234]:10887 "EHLO vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbWBCMz7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 07:55:59 -0500 Subject: Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue] From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Jiri Slaby , kavitha s , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1138863068.3270.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> , <20060201114845.E41F222AF24@anxur.fi.muni.cz> <20060202105338.E921D22AF07@anxur.fi.muni.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:55:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1138971350.3086.0.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: 1151 Lines: 35 On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:51 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>> > 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=? I'm not aware of one existing. > (Is the > kernel even able to tell the label of a filesystem, or is that specific to > mount(8)?) currently the kernel is fully unaware of any labels, other than having the space reserved in the various filesystem on disk metadata. This is one of those things that is better done in userspace really..... - 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/