On 01/07/2013 23:52, Grant Edwards wrote: > I've just recently run into a problem where sometimes when a machine > boots, the kernel can't find init. This appears to be because my grub > configuration line says "root=/dev/sda5" and _sometimes_ the drive > that contains my root partition is sdb instead of sda. AFAICT, for the > past 30 years the linux kernel was 100% consistent in the order that > hard drives were labelled -- but recently that has seems to have > changed. > > I use partition labels in my fstab, so that's not a problem, but after > all these years, the kernel still doesn't know how to grok parition > labels. > > Are we really expected now to set up an initrd just so that the kernel > can find the root partition?? >
Where have you been for the past 6 months? Did you miss the entire clusterfuck debate about latest udev tricks? Those names depend only on the order in which devices are discovered, and that process has always been indeterminate. udev used to get in the middle and rename things in an arbitrary but defined order, it no longer does this. We discussed this whole subject *to death* over the last many months -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
