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From: "Paul Rolland" <rol@as2917.net>
To: "'Jan Engelhardt'" <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: "'Marc Perkel'" <marc@perkel.com>,
       "'Chris Lalancette'" <clalance@redhat.com>,
       "'Rafael J. Wysocki'" <rjw@sisk.pl>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: could not find filesystem /dev/root
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:13:25 +0100
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Hello,

> Yeah, "unless". But the kernel should be considered fuzzy logic in 
> this area :) after all, it does not even need a kernel developer -- a 
> binutils contributor might also change something that results in a 
> change of link order.

Right... but I do change my kernel more often than my binutils ;)
 
>   On the other side, you can run udev _once_ to create device 
> nodes like 
> /dev/disk/by-label/ to allow at least correct booting (possibly using 
> LABEL=) Once the box is up, one can always figure out which drive is 
> which by looking at fdisk or other info. (Gets a little hard when 
> they're all the same manufacturer and type, but then again, LABEL= 
> will work without udev in the "normal" userspace.)

I may give it a try... Using uuid could also be an option but I'm not
sure this can be configured thru fstab...

Paul

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