Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750780AbWBCNpG (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:45:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750782AbWBCNpG (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:45:06 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.206]:47648 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750780AbWBCNpE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:45:04 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mQZ43zxmXaP9gP1flqNxbLGaNYTzf34XLQ5ZC0gMCSHDfUff5y4aGhexw3A3S/Cgo1LIB3+KikSMv28ojHh7/xwqU3a3ybZTxsMplNy3YrfhARWDbyYMPy47k9kJ1iZGuq29t9+rvFqyPWG6Yn7/toyniFQ+Vfo4SvKacVa6QVE= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:45:03 +0200 From: Samer Azmy To: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue] Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Jiri Slaby , kavitha s , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1138971350.3086.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <1138863068.3270.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060201114845.E41F222AF24@anxur.fi.muni.cz> <20060202105338.E921D22AF07@anxur.fi.muni.cz> <1138971350.3086.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1591 Lines: 49 Hello, do you have RAID array or a newly confiured RAID Kind Regards Samer On 2/3/06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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/ > - 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/