Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Arjan van de Ven (arjan@fenrus.demon.nl)
Tue, 15 May 2001 00:18:07 +0100 (BST)


In article <3B006229.EA65A868@transmeta.com> you wrote:

> That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
> it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
> part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
> ago.

That's why you want mount-root-by-partition-label, not by device
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