On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:20:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Miros/law Baran wrote: > > >>it worked. I really regard this problem as serious because it > >>probably leaves people with SATA hardware with an unbootable system > >>after kernel-image updates, because the kernel image packages just > >>reinsert "root=/dev/hda?" into grub's menu.lst. Any idea how to > >>solve this problem? > > > >...by using partition labels in fstab? > Sorry, I do not know anything about partition labels but if this is > the solution it should be done in the installer and if this works in > Grub menu.lst this should be done here as well. >
I gave some of the relevant people in the d-i team an education on the benefits of filesystem labels, to to the point where partman will create filesystems with a label, however I didn't manage to convince them to mount by the label in /etc/fstab regards Andrew -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://linux.conf.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://linux.conf.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://linux.conf.au/ - Get bitten! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]