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Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants
To: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl (Arjan van de Ven)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:20:22 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> > 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

Which in itself adds the 'and how does the label tell me what modules to load'
question..

For 2.5 with a clean ramfs root / initrd / uuid scan setup I would agree
entirely that uuid root is a good thing.

Alan