[CentOS] custom kernel cant find label /
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Wed Jun 18 17:39:49 UTC 2008
John R Pierce wrote:
>> To start, you could either label a filesystem as '/' or, you can just
>> change that root= line to point at a real filesystem.
>
>
> what WOULD be the 'real device' in the case of a USB thumbdrive?
> since its the boot device, would it necessarily be enumerated first,
> hence always /dev/sda ? or would it be after any other /dev/sd? that
> happen to be present on the system, which would mean that its device
> name is quite unpredictable?
>
> OTOH, using LABEL=/ could be very problematic if there are any OTHER
> devices present with a filesystem that has LABEL=/ ... I'd wonder if
> you wouldn't want to use LABEL=USBROOT or some such (and label the USB
> stick accordingly).
based on the other emails from Jerry recently, I'd assume that the usb
drive is the only mass storage device he has in the machine, so /dev/sda
should be predictable. But then, isnt this the exact issue that Labels'
are supposed to resolve ?
Your recommendations of labeling the partition with something that is
specific to the device ( label=USBROOT or label=USBKEYOSROOT ) might be
a good 'middle path' here. Might need to do something similar for the
swap and then sanity check /etc/fstab
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