Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue]

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 11:49:45 EST


>>> > ds: no socket drivers loaded!
>>> > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
>>> change root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/XXX. Vanilla doesn't support this...
>>
>>ehhh??
>>sure it does.
>>
>>this is not a kernel feature, but an initrd feature, independent on
>>which kernel is used (there never was and is not a patch for this in any
>>distro kernel I know about)
>Ok, thank you for pointing that out.
>

So does someone have a kernel-side patch for enabling LABEL=? (Is the
kernel even able to tell the label of a filesystem, or is that specific to
mount(8)?)


Jan Engelhardt
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