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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	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00da01c70287$aa8c2420$4b00a8c0@donald> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0611071514270.11892@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-07 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-06  1:54 could not find filesystem /dev/root Marc Perkel
2006-11-06 10:18 ` Mathieu SEGAUD
2006-11-06 10:26   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-06 14:20     ` Marc Perkel
2006-11-06 20:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-06 21:18   ` Marc Perkel
2006-11-06 21:25     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-06 21:30       ` Marc Perkel
2006-11-06 23:46         ` Chris Lalancette
2006-11-06 23:53           ` Marc Perkel
2006-11-07  7:04             ` Paul Rolland
2006-11-07  9:17               ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-07  9:52                 ` Paul Rolland
2006-11-07 14:18                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-07 16:13                     ` Paul Rolland [this message]
2006-11-07 17:31                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-07 15:10                 ` could not find filesystem /dev/root - menucinfig Marc Perkel

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