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 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq