[Mageia-dev] Why is AHCI statically compiled into kernel?

[Johnny A. Solbu]

On Thursday 7. March 2013 05.38, R James wrote:
> After the installation, you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst replacing each
> UUID=<blahblahblah> with LABEL=<DEFANGED_label>. For example:
> 
> root=LABEL=mgaroot (and) resume=LABEL=swap
> 
> Similarly in /etc/fstab, you can have entries like:
> 
> LABEL=mgaroot  /     ext4  relatime  1 1
> LABEL=swap     swap  swap  defaults  0 0

The problem with that is in those situations where one have two partitions with the same label, such as when one install into a new and bigger disk and keeps the old disk installed. A friend of mine does that quite often.

I still prefer UUID, as those are unique.

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Johnny A. Solbu
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