Re: onboard ethernet on Tyan Thunder K8WE (s2895)

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:30:20PM -0800, David Liontooth wrote:
> Another way to solve this -- sort of oldfashioned but very elegant -- is 
> to use labels. Say you want to label drives tv0 to tv2:
> 
> * ext2 and ext3: e2label or "tune2fs -L tv0 /dev/sde1"
> * XFS: "xfs_admin -L tv1 /dev/sda1" (max 12 characters, unmounted drive)
> * JFS: "jfs_tune -L tv2 /dev/sdb1" (max 16 characters)
> 
> In /etc/fstab,
> 
> LABEL=tv0       /tv0            ext2    auto,defaults,user,exec       
> 0       0
> LABEL=tv1       /tv1            jfs     auto,defaults,user,exec       
> 0       0
> LABEL=tv2       /tv2            xfs     auto,defaults,user,exec       
> 0       0
> 
> No matter how you attach the drives -- SATA channel, USB -- they will be 
> mounted where they should.
> This has been around for so long that it's rumored the guy who came up 
> with it also invented the wheel!

I tried that, but my initrd said something about not finding
/dev/disk/label/ROOT when I passed root=LABEL=ROOT, and I had labeled
the root filesystem with e2label.  So either something doesn't work with
labels in 2.6.15, or initramfs-tools doesn't generate an initrd that
supports it.

If someone knows how to solve that part of it, then I will be using
labels to fix this.

Len Sorensen