On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM, J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote: > Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic
OK, thanks. Yes, in the last post of that thread Nilesh states "Since I use grub2-mkconfig to generate the configuration, it's there with UUID, but it works with LABEL as well, I have tried it. Also, *don't* build your kernel *without* initramfs, because the kernel by default doesn't support mounting by LABELs or UUIDs (I think so, I've had failures w/o initrd)." While I don't know Nilesh's background, I have no reason to really doubt what he says here I seem to find a lot of posts on the web where people mount using UUID and they aren't clear as to whether they have an initramfs or not. I'll consider this solved for now with one caveat that it's unclear when you build the initramfs what tools have to be placed within it to make the following true. 1) No initramfs - mount by device name only 2) With initramfs - mount by device name, label or UUID. Thanks VERY MUCH for taking the time to find this. I'm removing the offending option from my grub.config file. Cheers, Mark
