Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 00:55:49 Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, > >> Stroller did > >> > >> opine thusly: > >>> I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or > >>> so, and s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller >> did >> opine thusly: >> >>> I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or >>> so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of >>> describing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing "root=" to the kernel. http://www.li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: > On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> ... > >> Does > >> > >> boot=LABEL= > >> > >> in grub config work for you? > > > > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not findi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Andrea Conti
>> boot=LABEL= >> >> in grub config work for you? > > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the > root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I am not sure about grub 2, but 0.97 knows nothing about filesystem labels (and neither does the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Stroller
On 4/1/2011, at 9:42am, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> ... >> Does >> >> boot=LABEL= >> >> in grub config work for you? > > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the > root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I found numerous references to this sy