On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 11:19 +0000, Richard Melville wrote > > Would't using GPT instead of MBR be a viable alternative?
Nope. GPT assigns UUIDs to the partitions, but that's all - the kernel still deals only with traditional device names (sda1, sda2, etc). The initramfs is still needed to work out which device to mount when given a UUID. The main advantage of the GPT UUIDs in this respect is that because they're on the partition itself rather than the filesystem, they remain constant when reformatting the partition (unlike fs-level UUIDs), and if disks are added and removed from the machine (unlike traditional device names). Simon.
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