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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:19:16 +0200
From: Eric Valette <Eric.Valette@Free.fr>
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To: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
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Subject: Re: Please add generic support for root=UUID= at kernel parameter
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On 23/08/2010 22:05, Florian Mickler wrote:

> I'm not exactly shure, but isn't the search command in grub2 what you
> want?
>
> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=38599
>
> You can let grub2 figure out which drive is which and pass the right
> devices to the kernel...
>

It helps finding the grub root partition, not how linux kernel will name 
it. It replaces the classical root=(hd0,0) command. BTW grubs always 
works and find the /boot/grub partition and load linux but linux does 
not manage to find init.

But thanks for helping anyway.

--eric


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