On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All the references Google can find for me say that you have to use a > GPT partition table if you want to specify a boot partition using > root=PARTUUID=<partition-uuid>. > > Does the root=PARTUUID option work for you? > > Can you point to some documentation on how you can use > root=PARTUID=<partition-uuid> with an DOS/MBR partition table?
As Neil alluded to, you can use UUID with MBR (instead of PARTUUID and GPT). I have DOS/MBR partition table and my kernel commandline looks like: root=UUID=1d21fa55-0fa9-4d43-8d41-8b4193900efa ro log_buf_len=1M quiet rootfstype=ext4 raid=noautodetect (along with an initramfs)
