[solved]Boot delay while searching for partitions

[houndhen]

PCLOS 2010 32 bit.

I have googled this problem and have also searched this forum.

PCLOS is installed on sda8, my swap partition is sda2. During the boot process there is a 1 minute delay for sda8 and another 1 minute delay for sda2.

I ran into this with Mandriva. Since the menu.lst entries use uuids to point to the root, every time I install a new distro or the kernel gets updated it changes the uuids I get the delays. I know about editing the menu.lst and the fstab file and then running mkinitrd. This annoying to say the least. Is there another way to get around having to do what I have been doing?

Thanks,
Harold

[houndhen]

Guess I must be looking for something that is not possible. Oh well...

[genomega]

There are threads on this problem:  http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,77033.0.html

I suspect it is a borked partition problem.  Only O-P knows for sure.

[kjpetrie]

You can give your partitions labels and use those instead of UUIDs in menu.lst and fstab (replace UUID=... with LABEL=....) and run mkinitrd again for good measure. The labels are internal to the partitions so won't change when other things change around them. You should be able to set the label from within PCC.

[houndhen]

You can give your partitions labels and use those instead of UUIDs in menu.lst and fstab (replace UUID=... with LABEL=....) and run mkinitrd again for good measure. The labels are internal to the partitions so won't change when other things change around them. You should be able to set the label from within PCC.

This seems like something that I could use. I will give it a try. Thanks, Harold