On 25 February 2010 21:38, Baho Utot <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have since found out that UUID and LABEL are a redhat twist. THey
> require an initrd and nash.
> nash mounts the drives ( does the dirty work and passes the info to the
> kernel ).
Do you mean that (about UUID and LABEL), or perhaps you mean
"when booting from an external disk" ?
I've had LABEL= in the fstab on my server for about 2 years,
ever since I had to start using libata on that box. No initrds,
no fedoras, and no substandard minimalist shells.
Might not work on all filesystems, but should work for at
least ext{2,3,4} - set it in tune2fs or e2label.
But for explanations of your inability to boot from an external
disk except by specifying /dev/sdXn I have no idea. Are you
sure you set it to what you put in grub.conf ?
If you were using "grub2" I would guess that using labels in
grub is not yet implemented:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/516ac0deccafb3af?pli=1
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