Once upon a time, Cameron Simpson cs@zip.com.au said:
On 16Oct2011 20:15, Chris Adams cmadams@hiwaay.net wrote: | See /dev/disk/by-{id,path,uuid}.
And does this work _before_ boot, in the root= kernel command line, via grub.conf?
I'm not sure about the /dev/..., but the UUID does directly (IIRC it is "UUID=...") with dracut. If you use LVM, dracut handles that as well (so "root=/dev/mapper/vg_foo-lv_root" works).