Upgrading from etch to lenny; root naming convertion problems on boot,,,

[Frank Charles Gallacher <franxg@gmail.com>]

Greetings,

(I think there has already been some discussion on this, but I want to
make sure...)

Reading section 4.8 of the Lenny Release Notes it talks about a problem
where "System boot hangs on Waiting for root file system",
where the naming convention has changed from /dev/hda to /dev/sda
and gives 2 options of how to avoid the problem before upgrading:

1. Labelling root filesystem as "rootfilesys" and changing a line
in /boot/grub/menu.lst to:

# kopt=root=LABEL=rootfilesys ro

OR

2. Using the UUID and updating menu.lst appropriately.

The question I want to know is; if my menu.lst is:

# kopt=root=/dev/sda2 ro

and my fstab entry for root is:

/dev/sda2       /   ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1

Then I probably don't need to worry about this gotcha,
OR is there a "Future-proof" way of setting up the disk???

TIA, fcG.
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Frank Charles Gallacher <franxg@gmail.com>