2.6 Kernel and root=LABEL=/ VFS Kernel Panic

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Aaron Grewell wrote:
>
> > 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.

That would definitely explain why it never worked once I built my own
kernels (2.4 & 2.6).  In that case, editing /etc/fstab is the only real
solution.

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