Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> I was just bitten again by the LABEL= bug. > > Please be careful with calling a behaviour a bug. Especially if you do > not fully understand whats happening. There is not bug with the LABEL > feature. If I compile a kernel, and then say "make install", and the installed kernel does not work, I call that a bug. It's easy to get round - by changing root=LABEL=/ to root=/dev/hda? in grub.conf - so I would call it a cosmetic 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 do not fully understand that sentence. You get a new entry in > grub.conf for the new kernel with use of LABEL and with /dev/hda at same > time? The previous entry in grub.conf for 2.6.4 had root=/dev/hda6 . Admittedly there was an old entry with root=LABEL=/ but it is not clear to me why the install process chose to copy this. >> 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. > > Well, you don't want to know the reason? Then do not make usage of the > LABEL feature. That was just my point. I don't _want_ to use the "LABEL feature" - and neither, in my estimation, do the vast majority of Linux users - but it is forced on me unless I take positive steps to remove it. > It is easy to avoid LABEL usage. Actually, it is not that easy, since it is used by default. It is clear from postings on the Linux newsgroups that this is a significant cause of kernel panic, with the root partition not being found. And it is clear that a significant number of Linux users do _not_ immediately diagnose the cause. > If you want to use the LABEL feature, > you need to have a correct labeled root partition, an initial ramdisk > image and BSD label support compiled into the kernel. If it requires all these preconditions to work properly, that seems to me a very good reason not to make it the default. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
