Daniel Frey wrote: > On 09/19/2015 12:44 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >> >> Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue >> what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the home >> partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully >> confuse someone I guess. :/ With UUIDs, who knows what is what there. >> > Given how much trouble it was getting grub2 to cooperate (for some > reason device.map was missing, and grub-install --recheck didn't rebuild > it) I really don't want to mess with it again trying to get labels to work. > > Actually, grub2 refused to use UUIDs in the grub2-mkconfig script, even > when I explicitly told it to via /etc/default/grub. > > I wound up having to use the PARTUUID for the root= line or the system > would not boot (manually, vy forcing it in /etc/default/grub.) > > Oddly enough, it was only one machine out of seven so far that's had > this weird udev "I'm gonna swap /dev/sda for /dev/sdf for no discernable > reason" problem. > > Dan > > >
Yea, sometimes things don't cooperate and we have to find a workaround. When that happens, you just have to do what you have to do. At least it boots correctly with it set up that way. It's a improvement over not booting. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
