Lubomir Rintel a écrit : > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 14:10 +0200, giggz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sorry If it isn't the right place to post...I don't find a grub users >> list... >> >> I have several kernel on my laptop. Most of them are compiled by myself. >> But to compare the performance I have an official debian kernel (486). >> The problem is that official debian kernels are compiled with ide (so >> hd* device) and my personal jkernel with PATA support (so sd* device). >> So the root= option is not the same. >> >> I would like to define a regle to set root=/dev/hda1 for all the *-486 >> kernels through the # kopt_*_486=root=/dev/hda1 ro option. But I want >> to keep the general regle : # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro >> Is there a way to do that ? > > Actually, you might want to use UUID or LABEL of the file system instead > of device file name. > > You can get or set UUID or label with tune2fs like this: > > # tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 (get information) > # tune2fs -L root-fs /dev/sda1 (set label) > > And then set a kernel root parameter as follows: > > root=LABEL=my-root-fs >
Hi, thx for your quick answer. my /etc/fstab sill use it. But I have read that in order to use uuid in the grub menu.lst I must have an initrd...and in my self-compiled kernels I don't build any initrd... Cheers > Hope that helps. > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
