On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:23, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sb, 17 iul 10, 09:06:02, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > > It is necessary to use initrd image while using UUID. So UUID method may > > not work with custom kernels where drivers are compiled in. > > Could you please elaborate on that? How can UUID fail if you have > modules compiled in the kernel, since UUID is a property of the > filesystem? > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMQVOBAAoJEHNWs3jeoi3pgJkH/1sIYoAOzgjqvUmQPgmyhEQA > yHfiV3t9B6vRc5nUKb9Ck/Z4aZaodz0VKMOZSwc8VlZutOitJLgPSqXPKvWnciRk > gcTJKDCvpn6Z/SB2jAHhk4MNVs2rn5jOvl1Qwpb046ak0vuvPJpmhl+X+SYQXsry > Qp/ARgVzQDSsvYeVazt2uNF7ZBwXGKESYnZV1eHwgMQHaps/qB88w2HLMJYDYYF4 > xD6qWdkq6AnSH1L3Ywuyf8V+MelxjctbZOGBSNjcFzvzios6g9JMYrLdTJWEy8jX > 006l0xPTL51UeUjGmOZTLYDOvFyhUV/AaWpuehXSY6GO+/pK2e5pfVmqVjJyjzE= > =dJRE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > @Andrei, Even if every driver is compiled into the kernel, an initrd may be required to use root=UUID=....format. That is what my experience too, finally I swithed to root=/dev/sda2 There are many suggestions that root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/.... could be used instead without an initrd. See the link, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61451
