Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Alan Cox]

> > it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time.  An idiotic practice on the
> > part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
> > ago.
> 
> That's why you want mount-root-by-partition-label, not by device

Which in itself adds the 'and how does the label tell me what modules to load'
question..

For 2.5 with a clean ramfs root / initrd / uuid scan setup I would agree
entirely that uuid root is a good thing.

Alan

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