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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order
From:       Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-07-02 22:30:31
Message-ID: CAEH5T2N69QVBNQsOnmFCbppsOJk4NaKuU2Ted=hdW=QFWCCc5Q () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can you point to some documentation on how you can use
>>> root=PARTUID=<partition-uuid> with an DOS/MBR partition table?
>>
>> As Neil alluded to, you can use UUID with MBR (instead of PARTUUID and
>> GPT). I have DOS/MBR partition table and my kernel commandline looks
>> like:
>>
>> root=UUID=1d21fa55-0fa9-4d43-8d41-8b4193900efa ro log_buf_len=1M quiet
>> rootfstype=ext4 raid=noautodetect
>>
>> (along with an initramfs)
>
> Yes, we've already discussed that if you have an initrd (or
> initramfs), and an 'init' program that handles it, you can use
> filesystem labels and filesystem uuids.
>
> The option we were discussing in the posting to which you replied is
> that of using the root=PARTUUID method which is handled directly by
> the kernel.

Ah, sorry, I missed that detail. I thought I was helping to clear up
confusion, when in fact I was the confused one! :)

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