On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:25 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 Thanks for the input re "LABEL". Sounds like a plan. Now if I can just figure out why anaconda is installing empty folders. :-( Fedora Core 5, Linux 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp athlon 19:50:36 up 11:13, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.13, 0.14
