Re: NSLU2 D-I RC2, installation oddities, apt-get update error

[Rob Lockhart <rlockhar@gmail.com>]

On 3/28/2007 8:28 AM EST, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Rob Lockhart <rlockhar@gmail.com> [2007-03-28 07:47]:
>   
>> I have a serial console, and did the install through that.  I also did
>> the installer image install via Redboot/TFTP.
>> After booting, I go through the menu options, etc. and partitioning.  I
>> notice that the first hard drive shown during install is sdb, whereas
>> the second is sda.  After install, I had to switch the USB cables
>> around, because it was trying to boot from the drive that the install
>> had marked as sdb (weird).
>>     
>
> There's no guarantee what disks will be labeled.  To use more than on
> disk without having them change names, you need to mount them as
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/...  You can put this into /etc/fstab and then you
> need to run:
>   update-initramfs -u
>   flash-kernel
>   
Is it not true that the linux kernel won't necessarily mount items in
fstab based on partition label?  As part of D-I RC2 manual partitioning,
one is given the option to label the partitions (new or those that would
be formatted), but I thought I read somewhere that the partition labels
themselves can't be used in /etc/fstab but I could be wrong.  Is that
what you are referring here (uuid)?

Regards,
  -Rob