On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 19:46:12 PST, Hovis Chasteen <hchasteenat_private> said: > title Red Hat Linux 8.0 (2.4.18-14) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img > > I am not sure if this is new to 8.0 or grub but I did > not see this in RH7.3. If anyone has a better solution > or can explain LABEL to me, I’m all ears. Basically, LABEL works as follows: each partition gets a 'label' attached to it, and it's stored on the actual partition. So saying 'LABEL=/usr/foo' tells the system "whatever visible partition has that label on it". It's really great for letting you boot even after recabling has changed hda to hdc, or if you use LVM or similar and the virtual partition name has been changed. It's hardly news - LILO and 'mount' have supported that for ages. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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