Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 06/25/2016 10:19:12 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can use "root=PARTUUID=partuuid" where >> >> on an msdos-labeled disk: >> >> # findmnt / -o TARGET,SOURCE,PARTUUID >> TARGET SOURCEPARTUUID >> / /dev/sda1

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 22:18:39 +0200, Helmut Jarausch (jarau...@skynet.be) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore" (in <pIgoU9n+PTyazMfaAjTflI@P0zLLCmfwy+atNuDbwD3I>): > On 06/

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

Yes, thanks, that did it, Helmut On 06/25/2016 10:19:12 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I'm a dino since I still use grub-1 but I prefer recent kernels (currently > 4.70-rc4) > > I don't understand the 'root=' option on the

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

Thanks Rich for the explanation. Yes, I don't use an initramfs as it's not necessary in my simple case. Fortunately, Jeremy's hint to use root=PARTUUID= works just fine (if one knows about it) Helmut On 06/25/2016 09:46:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 2:33 PM,

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I'm a dino since I still use grub-1 but I prefer recent kernels (currently > 4.70-rc4) > > I don't understand the 'root=' option on the boot line like > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-rc4 root=/dev/sda1 > > Here my bad

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

On 06/25/2016 09:39:32 PM, David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 20:33:31 +0200, Helmut Jarausch (jarau...@skynet.be) wrote about "[gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore" (in <YseLVsRteFjBS+5CTTP64t@7zc0huhpDvqcKwT48Q8b0>): [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > [1] It's also one of the reasons persistent device naming came into > udev, to try guarantee the same device will always have the same name > This is also one of the reasons why an initramfs is useful. Linus

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

Many, many thanks! That works indeed. Helmut On 06/25/2016 09:19:47 PM, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 08:33:31PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > So, I came up withroot=UUID=uuid_number of the root file system. > > But to my surprise I now got a kernel panic > syncing:

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

On 25/06/2016 20:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a dino since I still use grub-1 but I prefer recent kernels > (currently 4.70-rc4) > > I don't understand the 'root=' option on the boot line like > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-rc4 root=/dev/sda1 > > Here my bad experience: > > Having

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I don't understand the 'root=' option on the boot line like > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-rc4 root=/dev/sda1 > It is pretty simple. If you're not using an initramfs, the kernel attempts to find the device you list

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 20:33:31 +0200, Helmut Jarausch (jarau...@skynet.be) wrote about "[gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore" (in <YseLVsRteFjBS+5CTTP64t@7zc0huhpDvqcKwT48Q8b0>): [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 08:33:31PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > So, I came up withroot=UUID=uuid_number of the root file system. > > But to my surprise I now got a kernel panic > syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) > > So, please tell me what I'm missing?

[gentoo-user] booting - I don't anystand how the (Linux) world works anymore

Hi, I'm a dino since I still use grub-1 but I prefer recent kernels (currently 4.70-rc4) I don't understand the 'root=' option on the boot line like kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.7.0-rc4 root=/dev/sda1 Here my bad experience: Having booted by SystemRescueCD from the cdrom device, my root