jackson byers wrote: >> In my experience, the UUID for the rootfs >> is also hidden away in the init file in the initrd.img. >> If one tries to convert from UUID to labels, doesn't >> the init file have to be changed also? Tom Horsley responded: > I think only the UUID for the swap is stashed in there, > and it only uses it if you are trying to resume from > hibernate (or something like that). > The only places I've ever needed to change are the > root= parameters in the grub.conf file and the UUID= > parameters in the fstab. >.There is some parameter I set somewhere I think in > /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd to disable hibernate I find the UUID explicitly on the mkrootdev line in init: Following is copied from my response to an older thread Sep 2009: ---- In my experience, the UUID is also embedded internal to the initrd.img and this also should be consistent with the UUID in grub.conf to see this embedded UUID, you have to unpack the initrd.img and examine the 'init' file. Here is how I do it on my f11 [root@localhost ~]# mkdir clean [root@localhost ~]# cd clean [root@localhost clean]# pwd /root/clean [root@localhost clean]# cp /boot/bootf11usb3/initrd-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE.img . [root@localhost clean]# ls initrd-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE.img [root@localhost clean]# gunzip -c initrd-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE.img | cpio -i 13701 blocks [root@localhost clean]# ls bin etc initrd-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE.img proc sys usr dev init lib sbin sysroot [root@localhost clean]# less init near the end look for "mkrootdev" line: echo Creating root device. mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro UUID=54c84c0a-040b-43bd-8887-202519baaae2 ---- So my question remains: If i try to use labels instead of UUID, do i have to modify this mkrootdev line in init (initrd.img) ? jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
