Booting by Label or UUID

[archlinuxarmomae]

Hi,

I recently upgraded my Pogoplug E02/Marvel Kirkwood to the new Uboot. Before, I followd this guide or this one (not quite sure which one, both a more or less the same) to boot by Label. With the new Uboot, the layout of the uboot-arguments have changed - I experimented a bit trying boot by label, but didn't succeed. That's why I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to boot by Label (or UUID) with the new Uboot.

[moonman]

you need to figure out how to load uInitrd then change bootm (or bootz) command to boot with initrd. Then you can use label or uuid. I might look into doing that when I have more time.

[moonman]

One more thing: you can use PARTUUD (root=PARTUUID=<partuud>)
PARTUUID is part of GPT, not filesystem like UUID so kernel can see it without using additional tools hence no need for initrd.

You need to convert your MBR table to GPT (using gdisk?), find out what PARTUUID is for a partition with "blkid" and change "setargs" variable in uboot environment. That's it. New U-Boot does support GPT partition table out of the box.

[archlinuxarmomae]

Thanks moonman! Using PARTUUID works!