Ivan Shmakov <ivan@gray.siamics.net> writes: > And what the initramfs-tools package has to do with consistent > devices' filenames? Initramfs runs udev. This allows you to use e.g. root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAJS-65B4A0_WD-WMAT13954017-part1 instead of root=/dev/sda1 to specify where your root filesystem is.