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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:39:36 +0100
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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"

Alan