On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 14:46 -0500, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote: > I noticed that in GRUB, the kernel command has a strange root > argument, some long string that does not look like a path at all. A unique identifier. Each partition should have a unique one (and it probably will, unless you've done some cloning). It allows you to specify to use a particular partition, and it won't matter how it's attached to the computer (dev/sda, sdb, USB, whatever), it'll be used. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines