linux-kernel - Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

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Message-Id: <1157467176.9018.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:39:36 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

Ar Maw, 2006-09-05 am 15:26 +0200, ysgrifennodd Helge Hafting:
> between sda/hda unless they also use an initrd.  The kernel
> itself does not seem to support partition by label. :-(

This is correct and one reason vendor kernels generally use an initrd.
The kernel does however support "root=/dev/sda1"

Alan

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