On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <bil...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08.2010 18:06: >> On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>> Actually, you can: >>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html >>> >>> (Read the section below "Use a label"): >>> >>> fstab: >>> LABEL=ROOT / ext3 defaults 1 1 >>> LABEL=BOOT /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 >>> LABEL=SWAP swap swap defaults 0 0 >>> LABEL=HOME /home ext3 nosuid,auto 1 2 >> >> This syntax never worked here. Always resulted in an unbootable system. >> Only the /dev/disk/by-label/ syntax works reliably. >> > > Afaik if you are using GRUB LEGACY (0.97) and want to use LABEL/UUID in > your grub.conf/menu.lst you also need an initrd. I think with GRUB 2 > (1.98) it is possible without. You don't need an initrd for LABEL/UUID > in /etc/fstab for both cases.
FWIW I'm using sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 with GPT, labeled partitions and no initrd. My kernel has EFI_PARTITION compiled in (no module). My fstab looks like this: LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 LABEL=boot /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2 LABEL=root / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 LABEL=home /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 My kernel boot commandline still specified root by device name /dev/sda2 but otherwise my system works normally so far. :)
