On Fri, 2020-05-15 at 21:34 +0200, Alain Dumont via blfs-dev wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With grub I usually use PARTUUID rather than UUID to specify the
> location of my file system :
> linux/boot/vmlinuz root=PARTUUID="7d896f5 ....."
> It works very well. But recently I needed to use initrd (*) and I
> used
> the script mkinitramfs described in the blfs-book chapter 5.
> But then my system refused to start. The reason is that the init.in
> script does not support the case of PARTUUID.
> It is very easy to include this functionality in the script by
> simply
> adding a single line in the function do_mount_root() :
>
> do_mount_root()
> {
> mkdir /.root
> [ -n "$rootflags" ] && rootflags="$rootflags,"
> rootflags="$rootflags$ro"
>
> case "$root" in
> /dev/* ) device=$root ;;
> UUID=* ) eval $root; device="/dev/disk/by-uuid/$UUID" ;;
> PARTUUID=*) eval $root;
> device="/dev/disk/by-partuuid/$PARTUUID" ;; <=== add this line
> LABEL=* ) eval $root; device="/dev/disk/by-label/$LABEL"
> ;;
> "" ) echo "No root device specified." ; problem ;;
> esac
>
> et voila!
>
> a simple suggestion which could be included definitively in the
> script
> hoping that it would be useful for others.
>
> Alain
>
> (*) Here, initrd is required by lvm to check thin-pools at boot time
> (I
> use optional thin-provisonning-tools).
>
> More info about that in an other post if needed.
>
>
Done at r23196, together with a fix and another improvement. Thanks
Pierre
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