On 25/02/10 23:57, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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. >
The fstab entry for / is ignored. The kernel mounts the partition that grub tells it to mount. Try this in your /etc/fstab strawberry-cheescake / ext3 defaults 0 1 For me, the system boots fine with nonesense at the start of the / line. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
