On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 02:42:15PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > 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?
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