From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964932AbWFHSjK (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:39:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964930AbWFHSjK (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:39:10 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:17861 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964932AbWFHSjJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:39:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4488368B.5070103@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:39:07 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Karnik Cc: Ram Gupta , linux mailing-list Subject: Re: booting without initrd References: <728201270606070913g2a6b23bbj9439168a1d8dbca8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/" 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