Re: SATA disk device naming ?

[Tigran Aivazian]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Ricky Beam wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Eric D. Mudama wrote:
> >... "root=LABEL=/" ...
> 
> I've seen the LABEL method not work at all. (2.6.7-rc3 on the wikipedia
> servers.)

right, the LABEL=/ never works for me so I always replace it with explicit 
"root=/dev/sda2" thing, but this is problematic if "/dev/sda2" becomes 
"/dev/hda2" if you boot with IDE driver compiled in, as opposed to SATA 
driver.

I assumed that "LABEL=/" thing is a RedHat-specific kernel's feature but 
never bothered to check. The reason I assumed so was that the problems 
always happen after installation, i.e. as soon as I replace the vendor's 
generic kernel with the one properly optimized for my specific needs.

Kind regards
Tigran

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