[Wylug-help] USB Flash: device numbers, filenames and grub

Dave Fisher wylug-help at davefisher.co.uk
Mon Jan 29 15:52:10 GMT 2007


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:17:58PM +0000, Dave Fisher wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:03:35PM +0000, Jason Lander wrote:
> > Joining the discussion rather late. If I recall correctly, if you are 
> > using ext2 or ext3, you can label the root filesystem with e2label and use
> > 
> >    root=LABEL=whatever_you_called_it

Just reporting back, in case anyone else is interested in rolling their
own USB distro.

Jason's syntax works perfectly.

So now 'all' I need to do is find a way of identifying the grub names
for partitions non-interactively ;-)

Dave



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