2013/7/2 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > On 2013-07-02, Randolph Maa?en <r.maasse...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2013/7/2 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > > >> It looks like my options are: > >> > [...] > >> > >> 5) For the drive with the root parition on it switch from a DOS > >> parition table to a GPT partition table and use the > >> root=PARTUUID=<whatever> kernel option. > > > > You don't need to switch to GPT for that. I have a DOS partitioned disk > and > > "blkid" prints the LABEL and UUID for each partition. > > And you can pass those values to the kernel via the "root=" parameter? > > Yep. The G in GPT just means that the type of the partition is stored as GUID/UUID. The partition ID is a separate value.
> -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! NEWARK has been > at REZONED!! DES MOINES > has > gmail.com been REZONED!! > > > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Randolph Maaßen
