Re: root=LABEL= problem [Was: Re: Linux Issue]

[Samer Azmy <samer.azmy@gmail.com>]

Hello,

do you have RAID array or a newly confiured RAID

Kind Regards
Samer

On 2/3/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:51 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >>> > ds: no socket drivers loaded!
> > >>> > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
> > >>> change root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/XXX. Vanilla doesn't support this...
> > >>
> > >>ehhh??
> > >>sure it does.
> > >>
> > >>this is not a kernel feature, but an initrd feature, independent on
> > >>which kernel is used (there never was and is not a patch for this in any
> > >>distro kernel I know about)
> > >Ok, thank you for pointing that out.
> > >
> >
> > So does someone have a kernel-side patch for enabling LABEL=?
>
> I'm not aware of one existing.
>
> >  (Is the
> > kernel even able to tell the label of a filesystem, or is that specific to
> > mount(8)?)
>
> currently the kernel is fully unaware of any labels, other than having
> the space reserved in the various filesystem on disk metadata.
>
>
>
> This is one of those things that is better done in userspace really.....
>
>
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