On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 14:10 +0200, giggz wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry If it isn't the right place to post...I don't find a grub users > list... > > I have several kernel on my laptop. Most of them are compiled by myself. > But to compare the performance I have an official debian kernel (486). > The problem is that official debian kernels are compiled with ide (so > hd* device) and my personal jkernel with PATA support (so sd* device). > So the root= option is not the same. > > I would like to define a regle to set root=/dev/hda1 for all the *-486 > kernels through the # kopt_*_486=root=/dev/hda1 ro option. But I want > to keep the general regle : # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro > Is there a way to do that ?
Actually, you might want to use UUID or LABEL of the file system instead of device file name. You can get or set UUID or label with tune2fs like this: # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 (get information) # tune2fs -L root-fs /dev/sda1 (set label) And then set a kernel root parameter as follows: root=LABEL=my-root-fs Hope that helps. -- Lubomir Rintel (Was: Kundrak) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
