On Sb, 17 iul 10, 23:10:39, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > > > Could you please elaborate on that? How can UUID fail if you have > > modules compiled in the kernel, since UUID is a property of the > > filesystem? > > Even if every driver is compiled into the kernel, an initrd may be required > to > use root=UUID=....format. > That is what my experience too, finally I swithed to root=/dev/sda2 > There are many suggestions that root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/.... > could be used instead without an initrd. > > See the link, > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61451 The link only talks about /dev/disk/by-uuid/... which is correct. Those are actually symlinks created by udev and I'm guessing they are not present if you don't have an initrd. But passing root=UUID=... should not require an initrd, because it doesn't rely on /dev being present. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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