Bug 11162 (UUID-root)

Summary:	UUID support built into kernel
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Mumia W. (mumia.w.18.spam+nospam)
Component:	Block Layer	Assignee:	Jens Axboe (axboe)
Status:	REJECTED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	aleks, mumia.w.18.spam+nospam
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.26	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Mumia W. 2008-07-25 09:06:22 UTC

Latest working kernel version: (none)
Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.26
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Hardware Environment: i386
Software Environment: linux-source, kernel_package
Problem Description:

I would like to see UUID support built into the kernel; in particular, I would like to be able to do this in Grub:

> title  Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.26
> root   (hd0,7)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26 rootuuid=aaaabbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeffff ro
> boot

In other words, the "rootuuid" parameter would specify the UUID of the hard disk to use as the root partition, and no initrd or initramfs would be needed.

This request has come out of a thread I created in the Ubuntu-users mailing list:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mumia.w.18.spam/docs/nouuid-1.txt
http://home.earthlink.net/~mumia.w.18.spam/docs/nouuid-2.txt

Steps to reproduce:

Specify rootuuid=aaaabbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeffff, and it will be ignored if there is no initrd or initramfs.

Specify root=UUID=aaaabbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeffff, and it will be ignored if there is no initrd or initramfs.

Comment 1 Jens Axboe 2008-07-28 03:13:21 UTC

Sorry, we can't take feature requests in bugzilla. If you want to have better luck with this, you should start the effort off yourself and post it on the appropriate mailing list.

Comment 2 Alexander 2013-05-17 23:39:19 UTC

> and it will be ignored if there is no initrd or initramfs.
--> but if someone wants to harm the system (as suggested) he would place a initrd or initramfs

sorry links are dead:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mumia.w.18.spam/docs/nouuid-1.txt
http://home.earthlink.net/~mumia.w.18.spam/docs/nouuid-2.txt

please reply.

Comment 3 Mumia W. 2013-05-18 15:38:35 UTC

Please do not worry about it.