On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 07:47, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was just bitten again by the LABEL= bug. > For some reason, "make install" 2.6 kernels > causes a new entry in grub.conf using root=LABEL=/ , > even though the entry being copied says /dev/hda? > > I don't know why - and don't really want to know why - > but this causes a panic on my machine, > with the root partition not found, > even though it has the correct label according to e2label. > > I understand the supposed advantage of LABEL > if one is changing a hard disk, > but I just feel the confusion it causes vastly outweighs its merits. > Am I alone in this? I personally don't like the LABEL feature... Makes it real hard to retrieve data from a drive if you put it in another system :( -- Homer Parker /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign BOFH for homershut.net \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.homershut.net x No Word docs in email telnet://bbs.homershut.net / \ Respect for open standards "Bill Gates reports on security progress made and the challenges ahead." -- Microsoft's Homepage, on the day an SQL Server bug crippled large sections of the Internet.
