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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:49:11 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net>
Cc: "Eric D. Mudama" <edmudama@bounceswoosh.org>,
       "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@stokkie.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ?
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:23:32PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
> >... "root=LABEL=/" ...
> 
> I've seen the LABEL method not work at all. (2.6.7-rc3 on the wikipedia
> servers.)

For LABEL to work, your filesystem needs to support it.

For LABEL to work on root filesystem, you need an initrd.

	Jeff