Re: booting without initrd

[Måns Rullgård]

Mark Lord <lkml@xxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

Yes, there's an old saying that "grief comes with a red hat".

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Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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