2.6 Kernel and root=LABEL=/ VFS Kernel Panic

[Aaron Grewell]

> Redhat first made this change in RH9 (i believe), and labeled it an
> enhancement. I think it sux, because it obscures the real block device
> names with fancy labels.  Next thing you know, they'll be calling them
> C:\ and D:\.  But I digress.  If you edit /etc/fstab to use the real
> device names then you shouldn't need to provide a root= at boot.  There's
> prolly a more elegant Redhat way of doing this that allows you to
> continue using LABLE= but since i hate that notation anyway, i've not
> made any effort in figuring it out.
> 

Not only is it RH-specific, I'm not sure the vanilla kernel supports
it.  I think it's a patch RH added, which explains why it doesn't work. 
I've never had any luck using label-names against a vanilla kernel.