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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:12:24 +, Neil Bird wrote:
> Around about 10/02/2003 13:36, Robert P. J. Day typed ...
> > if you want to use the "root=LABEL=/" label notation, then you need
> > to use the initrd, or build ext3 support right into the kernel
>What *is* the LABEL notation all about? I've only ever come across
> /dev/xxx ...
The Label puts a name for the partition which is the same regardless of
weather or not the hard drive stays in the same position, i.e move
drive from hda to hdb grub will still find the partitions.
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Around about 10/02/2003 13:36, Robert P. J. Day typed ...
if you want to use the "root=LABEL=/" label notation, then you need
to use the initrd, or build ext3 support right into the kernel.
if you're happy with the /dev notation, you're fine without it.
What *is* the LABEL notation all about?
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On Monday 10 February 2003 07:45 am, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 10 February 2003 05:36, Robert P. J. Day uttered:
> > if you want to use the "root=LABEL=/" label notation, then you
need
> > to use the initrd, or build ext3 support right into the
On Monday 10 February 2003 05:36, Robert P. J. Day uttered:
> if you want to use the "root=LABEL=/" label notation, then you need
> to use the initrd, or build ext3 support right into the kernel.
> if you're happy with the /dev notation, you're fine without it.
>
> once upon a time, i knew why this
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Mark Hoover wrote:
> Jesse,
>
> Thanks for the help. I tried this over the weekend and amazingly enough
> it works great. I was seriously expecting some kind of boot error by leaving
> that initrd line out.
>
> I will note however, RH7.x used a root=/dev/ notation for it's
perfectly.
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Mark Hoover
District Network Engineer
Norfolk Public Schools
628-3810 x3045
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From: Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: j2Solutions
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel Comp
On Friday 07 February 2003 09:58, Mark Hoover wrote:
> I recently installed RH8 on a 486 system that I want to use as a
> gateway/router machine. When I compile the 2.4.20 kernel, I for some
> reason end up with a initrd-2.4.20.img file. I specifically told
> menuconfig that I did *not* want to u
