On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 14:53 +, Richard Melville wrote:
I think that was understood; when they said that it was stupid it
was surely meant that there could be some confusion in the use of
similar terms.
Possibly, though if they'd understood it, you'd think they'd have
mentioned
On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 00:31 +, Richard Melville wrote:
It seems a little churlish to pick holes in what is essentially a good
article, and, indeed, one that supplied the answer to a question on
this list.
True. Well, suffice it to say that the /dev/disks symlink tree *does*
support GPT
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 11:19 +, 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
Now it would be nice for it to work using UUIDs so the booting can
be independent of host system.
You need to use an initrd of that. See BLFS.
-- Bruce
Would't using GPT instead of MBR be a viable alternative?
Richard
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On 18/12/12 01:24, Alexander Spitzer wrote:
Hello all,
I am having a hard time booting my LFS system, which is on a USB
drive. I installed grub on /dev/sdc (the usb relative to the host) and
the bios successfully finds GRUB. After around 2.3 seconds, the boot
process hangs after printing
Hello all,
I am having a hard time booting my LFS system, which is on a USB drive. I
installed grub on /dev/sdc (the usb relative to the host) and the bios
successfully finds GRUB. After around 2.3 seconds, the boot process hangs
after printing what I believe to be a trace call. Interestingly,
I got it to work! Turns out that the root file system changes to /dev/sdc1
after all the harddisks are found so changing the line root=/dev/sda1 to
root=/dev/sdc1 and adding a rootdelay successfully booted the system!
Now it would be nice for it to work using UUIDs so the booting can
be
Alexander Spitzer wrote:
I got it to work! Turns out that the root file system changes to /dev/sdc1
after all the harddisks are found so changing the line root=/dev/sda1 to
root=/dev/sdc1 and adding a rootdelay successfully booted the system!
Now it would be nice for it to work using UUIDs so
