Bug#606806: initramfs-tools: Handling of numeric root= arguments is not udev-friendly

["H.-R. Oberhage" <oberhage@uni-duisburg-essen.de>]

Thanks, ...

On Dec 13, Stephen Powell wrote:
> [...]
> specification.  For example, on my system I use
> 
>    ...
>    boot=/dev/disk/by-uuid/055d446a-977d-4aa6-877d-62c716f5e85a
>    ...
>    root="UUID=055d446a-977d-4aa6-877d-62c716f5e85a"
> 
> in /etc/lilo.conf.

.. for a very valuable hint (to me, at least).

This probably means, that a disk "LABEL" will do, too?!
[I don't trust the UUID :-). They can change so often (reformatting swap)
 and are not so 'unique' at all, e.g. in the case of (physical) snap
 shots :-).]

I like to be consistent using either /dev/sdaX (or whatever), or UUIDs,
or LABELs and with LILO always had the problem to specify the boot-device
properly, when not using /dev/sd...; I just missed the idea of specifying
it via (e.g.) "by-label".

So thanks again for that nice tip!

Best regards,
 Ruediger