Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030202AbWIEQwM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 12:52:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030201AbWIEQwL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 12:52:11 -0400 Received: from relay01.mail-hub.dodo.com.au ([203.220.32.149]:12988 "EHLO relay01.mail-hub.dodo.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030190AbWIEQwJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 12:52:09 -0400 From: Grant Coady To: Alan Cox Cc: Helge Hafting , Jan Engelhardt , Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19 Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:51:56 +1000 Organization: http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/ Reply-To: Grant Coady Message-ID: References: <44FC0779.9030405@garzik.org> <44FD7B1E.7020102@aitel.hist.no> <1157467176.9018.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1157467176.9018.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1094 Lines: 27 On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:39:36 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >Ar Maw, 2006-09-05 am 15:26 +0200, ysgrifennodd Helge Hafting: >> between sda/hda unless they also use an initrd. The kernel >> itself does not seem to support partition by label. :-( > >This is correct and one reason vendor kernels generally use an initrd. >The kernel does however support "root=/dev/sda1" Which leads back to this slackware user, who's never used an initrd, thinking about dual root partitions just to get the name change from another /etc/fstab? I dual boot 2.4 / 2.6 kernels, looking for a simple solution so I can test Alan's work. No udev, no initrd, funny I see a second '/' partition as 'easy'? ;) I'm missing something here? Generally /etc/lilo.conf looks like: Grant. - 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/