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Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly



On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 13:48 +0100, H.-R. Oberhage wrote:
> Thanks, ...
> 
> On Dec 13, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > [...]
> > specification.  For example, on my system I use
> > 
> >    ...
> >    boot=/dev/disk/by-uuid/055d446a-977d-4aa6-877d-62c716f5e85a
> >    ...
> >    root="UUID=055d446a-977d-4aa6-877d-62c716f5e85a"
> > 
> > in /etc/lilo.conf.
> 
> .. for a very valuable hint (to me, at least).
> 
> This probably means, that a disk "LABEL" will do, too?!
> [I don't trust the UUID :-). They can change so often (reformatting swap)
>  and are not so 'unique' at all, e.g. in the case of (physical) snap
>  shots :-).]
[...]

Yes, labels work too.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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