kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 works

[William Hooper]

John Summerfield said:
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 07:45, William Hooper wrote:
>
>>> Labels are a good idea implemented poorly. The kernel should whinge
>>> loutly when it sees duplicates.
>>
>> IIUC the kernel knows nothing of labels.  They are a purely a userland
>> concept (which is why you must use an initrd if you wish to use them).
>
> As I said, implemented poorly.
>
>
> I don't think that one needs to use initrd though: perhaps if you label
> the root filesystem, but that's not the case on this box (nahant).

I should have been more clear.  If you want to boot using labels in the
root= paramater, you must use an initrd.

-- 
William Hooper