On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:49 +0000, Toad wrote: > Replacing root=LABEL=/1 with root=/dev/hda in the third title entry > results in kernel panic which may be consistent with all the empty > directories. I did RTFM and google LABEL but still not sure exactly > how it works. Can't help with the other issues, but the "root" part is for the system "/" partition. So whichever partition on hda it is, that's the one you put. i.e. it'd be "root=/dev/hda2" not just "root=/dev/hda". Label is just a name put on the partitions, it could be anything (you get to choose the name, almost freeform). You can find out what's the label for /dev/hda2 by this command: e2label /dev/hda2 You can change the label by writing the new one on the end. e.g. e2label /dev/hda2 systemroot It's handy if you move drives about, you can mount them by labels without having to work out if they're hda1 or hdb2. But a bastard if you have installs with the same labels on different drives. I've taken to naming my drives with a texta (e.g. fred), then relabelling the partitions accordingly. e.g. fredboot, fredsysroot, or fred1, fred2 -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
