2013/7/2 Grant Edwards <[email protected]>: > It looks like my options are: > > <snip> > > 5) For the drive with the root parition on it switch from a DOS > parition table to a GPT partition table and use the > root=PARTUUID=<whatever> kernel option. > > Switching to a GPT partition table sounds like the cleanest solution, > but I need to figure out if the grub (legacy) ebuild includes GPT > support or not. I know it's supported by grub2, but I don't really > feel like switching to grub2 ATM.
I'm not exactly sure about your system's setup, but msdos partition tables can also hold partition UUIDs, which can be seen by running blkid. So, such a solution does not necessarily imply a GPT-based setup... you can experiment with it a bit, having fun tweaking kernel parameters :)
