Re: Use of root LABEL=mylabel in menu.lst

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 16.11.2008, 07:16 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Ellis:

>      groot=LABEL=mylabel
>      root     LABEL=mylabel
> 
> and at boot grub gives 
>      Error 11: Unrecognized device string
> 
> This is rather odd because the following statements (from menu.lst)
> work correctly
>      kopt=root=LABEL=ubuntu8-04 ro
>      kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-20-generic
> root=LABEL=ubuntu8-04 ro quiet splash

Well groot () and root () are for grub itself whereas the root= is for
the linux kernel

> so I have had to change these to 
>      groot=(hd0,3)
>      root        (hd0,3)
> 
> Is there any way I can make these work with labels instead of numbers?
> I have attached an extract from menu.lst below and fstab below.

Switch to grub2, it uses UUIDs for root () setting.

-- 
Felix Zielcke