On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:40:09 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On 05 Aug 2004 16:33:50 -0400, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:24, netmask wrote: > >>> Also, you must use initrd to use labels in fstab > >> > >> This is not true. An initrd is only _required_ if you have not compiled > >> into the kernel a module necessary for boot. > > > > Wrong. You can only mount partitions via their ext2/ext3 volume labels if > > the initrd contains a mount command which understands the labels, e.g. > > nash. > > only partially true. as i understand it (and i asked about this way > back in history once upon a time), you only need an initrd if you want > to mount the *root* filesystem by label. That's what I meant, root=LABEL=foo in kernel command-line. Sorry.
