John Summerfield said: > On Thursday 25 November 2004 07:45, William Hooper wrote: > >>> Labels are a good idea implemented poorly. The kernel should whinge >>> loutly when it sees duplicates. >> >> IIUC the kernel knows nothing of labels. They are a purely a userland >> concept (which is why you must use an initrd if you wish to use them). > > As I said, implemented poorly. > > > I don't think that one needs to use initrd though: perhaps if you label > the root filesystem, but that's not the case on this box (nahant). I should have been more clear. If you want to boot using labels in the root= paramater, you must use an initrd. -- William Hooper
