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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>
Cc: Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>,
	linux mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booting without initrd
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:39:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4488368B.5070103@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b29067a0606081040q17c66f5bpa966da851635e942@mail.gmail.com>

Rahul Karnik wrote:
>
> AFAIK Fedora sets up the kernel command line with "root=LABEL=/" in
> grub.conf and therefore needs the initrd in order to work correctly.
> If you do not want an initrd, then change this to
> "root=/dev/<your_disk>" in grub.conf. Note that the reason Fedora uses
> the LABEL is so you can move disks around in your system without a problem

Heh.. except for people like me, who regularly swap disks around
to boot from different distros, in which case the LABEL=/ continuously
causes nothing but grief until I remember to edit it away.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-08 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-07 16:13 booting without initrd Ram Gupta
2006-06-07 18:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-08 17:40 ` Rahul Karnik
2006-06-08 14:39   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2006-06-08 17:58     ` David Lang
2006-06-08 19:56     ` Mark Rustad
2006-06-08 20:32     ` Måns Rullgård
2006-06-09  0:40   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-09  1:43     ` Paul Dickson
2006-06-09  3:33       ` Joe Korty
2006-06-09 20:44 ` Yaroslav Klyukin

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