On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 02:13, James Wilkinson wrote: > The Fedora kernels have an initrd, a RAM disk that gets mounted as a > root filesystem early in the boot process. This contains the modules > needed for the system to boot [1], and the mount command that can mount > filesystems by label [2]. This means that with the Fedora kernels, > specifying the real root filesystem is done with userspace tools. > > Without an initrd, the kernel mounts the root filesystem itself. It > doesn't know about ext3 labels. > > You can either investigate mkinitrd, or carry on the way you're doing > things. Where does the /boot/initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.img file and the line initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3custom.img enter in this story? Are they not supposed to make the translation of the label name into the real filesystem? Juan -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
