Newsgroups: gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:11:47 +0100
> Grml wiki indicates that grml can use disk labels/UUIDs as root= option > for booting [1]. What's the correct syntax for that?
http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/08/11/stable-root-device-aka-uuid/
mika
Upcoming grml releases will very probably use mounting by UUID for main partition (the libata merge of >=2.6.19 forces the decision), I've to make sure the upgrade path works fine for all users then.
> A side question, is the UUID get assigned during mkfs or partition > creation, or...?
The UUID is usually assigned with running mkfs. Some filesystems provide an interface to change the UUID later on, like with
xfs_admin -U $UUID
mika
http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/08/11/stable-root-device-aka-uuid/
Given: server with SCSI disk for the system plus a SCSI storage in the back. who guarantees that /dev/sda is always the systemdisk? Using the Debian-kernel with initramfs isn't capable of booting the system via root=/dev/sda1 because /dev/sda1 corresponds to the SCSI storage.
Generic solution: use the power of UUID:
root@grml # /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sda1 | grep UUID ID_FS_UUID=4a6aed11-42dd-4c82-81ce-8f469e93f210 root@grml # eval $(/lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sda1 | grep UUID) root@grml # ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid/$ID_FS_UUID lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 10 11:01 /dev/disk/by-uuid/4a6aed11-42dd-4c82-81ce-8f469e93f210 -> ../../sda1
Now we know the UUID and boot the system via root=UUID=… instead of a root=/dev/sda-entry:
title Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.15-1-686 (on /dev/sda1) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686 root=UUID=4a6aed11-42dd-4c82-81ce-8f469e93f210 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-686
Finally do not forget to adjust /etc/fstab as well for all entries:
UUID=e0164f78-9821-4eaf-bda7-1fd9b43a6f06 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=4a6aed11-42dd-4c82-81ce-8f469e93f210 /home ext3 defaults 0 0 UUID=0e88f32f-fb98-4279-b3bc-8edfc2046b5d none swap sw 0 0
mika