Re: booting without initrd

[Mark Rustad]

On Jun 8, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Mark Lord wrote:

> Rahul Karnik wrote:
> > AFAIK Fedora sets up the kernel command line with "root=LABEL=/" in
> > grub.conf and therefore needs the initrd in order to work correctly.
> > If you do not want an initrd, then change this to
> > "root=/dev/<your_disk>" in grub.conf. Note that the reason Fedora  
> > uses
> > the LABEL is so you can move disks around in your system without a  
> > problem
>
> Heh.. except for people like me, who regularly swap disks around
> to boot from different distros, in which case the LABEL=/ continuously
> causes nothing but grief until I remember to edit it away.

You would like labels a lot better if you took charge and forced the  
labels to be something like "FC4-root", "SLES9-root" etc. rather than  
the default "/".

--
Mark Rustad, MRustad@xxxxxxx

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