Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-10 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 23:26:46 schrieb Stroller: Am I not correct in thinking that initramfs used to be / can be / was originally a separate file which goes in /boot and is described with an extra boot parameter? Yes, you are. There are several ways nowadays. I use the easy one: Populate

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-10 Thread Mick
On Monday 09 February 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller: I don't like initrd and the longer kernel   lines in grub.conf that they require. Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf? Here's mine, as an example: title=Gentoo Linux kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-10 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 18:46 +, Mick wrote: On Monday 09 February 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller: I don't like initrd and the longer kernel lines in grub.conf that they require. Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf? Here's

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 9 Feb 2009, at 07:42, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: ... strol...@hex ~ $ sudo mount -v -L boot /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime) strol...@hex ~ $ ... You may have done this but just in case, you did use the tools to set the label on the drive right?

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 07:56, Stroller wrote: ... You may have done this but just in case, you did use the tools to set the label on the drive right? tune2fs does it for ext2 and ext3. I'm not sure about ext4. Good question! I thought for a moment that the above demonstrated that I had done

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 9 Feb 2009, at 07:56, Stroller wrote: ... You may have done this but just in case, you did use the tools to set the label on the drive right? tune2fs does it for ext2 and ext3. I'm not sure about ext4. Good question! I thought for a moment that the above demonstrated

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 08:02, Dale wrote: ... r...@sysresccd /root % mount -v -L root /mnt/gentoo mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sda6 I will try type ext4 /dev/sda6 on /mnt/gentoo type ext4 (rw) r...@sysresccd /root % Since ext4 is new and I have no experience with

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:26:38 +, Stroller wrote: I can find numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the kernel. It would appear that you need an initrd/initramfs to use this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 09:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:26:38 +, Stroller wrote: I can find numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the kernel. It would appear that you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:28:42 +, Stroller wrote: I bow to your vastly superior Google-Fu. Not really, I just hit the same problem as you a while ago, and came up with the same solution. -- Neil Bothwick Adolescence, n.: The stage between puberty and adultery. signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
It would appear that you need an initrd/initramfs to use this. Ah! Many thanks. I will live without this shortcut, then, I think. If you, like me, prefere to compile your own kernel, there's still an easy way to create a initrd for your kernel: with genkernel I use this command to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 10:32, Michael Hampicke wrote: It would appear that you need an initrd/initramfs to use this. Ah! Many thanks. I will live without this shortcut, then, I think. If you, like me, prefere to compile your own kernel, there's still an easy way to create a initrd for your

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 09 February 2009 18:51:24 Stroller wrote: On 9 Feb 2009, at 10:32, Michael Hampicke wrote: It would appear that you need an initrd/initramfs to use this. Ah! Many thanks. I will live without this shortcut, then, I think. If you, like me, prefere to compile your own kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller: I don't like initrd and the longer kernel   lines in grub.conf that they require. Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf? Here's mine, as an example: title=Gentoo Linux kernel /vmlinux.gz realroot=/dev/evms/root vga=0x31B notsc

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 18:03, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller: I don't like initrd and the longer kernel lines in grub.conf that they require. Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf? Here's mine, as an example: title=Gentoo Linux kernel

[gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-08 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Is anyone using root=LABEL= grub.conf, please? Anyone also using ext4 for their root? I can find numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-08 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Is anyone using root=LABEL= grub.conf, please? Anyone also using ext4 for their root? I can find numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using root=LABEL=xxxx in grub.conf

2009-02-08 Thread Stroller
On 9 Feb 2009, at 07:42, Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: ... strol...@hex ~ $ sudo mount -v -L boot /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime) strol...@hex ~ $ ... You may have done this but just in case, you did use the tools to set the label on the drive right? tune2fs does it for ext2