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On Jun 30, 2016 5:23 PM, "Ady Ady via Syslinux" <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > BTW, any suggestions for an alternative name for this option, instead > of "dlabel"? diskbylabel, diskbypartitionlabel, label2disk, etc. --Gene

On 06/30/16 14:19, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > > BTW, any suggestions for an alternative name for this option, instead > of "dlabel"? > "disklabel" -hpa

...anyone else interested)... Although I haven't actually tested Erwan's patch, would it be acceptable by you (all) if I were to send a patch to this Syslinux Mailing List with the same code while changing the wording as I previously suggested in a prior email? Would it be OK to use "diskbypartitionlabel" as name of the option? At any rate, the credit should go to Erwan; I am just trying to help so to actually make the push for it. Regards, Ady.

The exisiting label= option offer to boot on a gpt partition that have a particular label. The existing guuid= option offer to boot on a disk or partition with a particular label. This new option offer to boot the disk that have a partition which have a given label. The label is so just a way to detect a disk to boot. A typical use is for making an intelligent localboot like : label

...; > Although I haven't actually tested Erwan's patch, would it be > acceptable by you (all) if I were to send a patch to this Syslinux > Mailing List with the same code while changing the wording as I > previously suggested in a prior email? Would it be OK to use > "diskbypartitionlabel" as name of the option? At any rate, the credit > should go to Erwan; I am just trying to help so to actually make the > push for it. > You're right, in fact, I misinterpreted it exactly this way! I would suggest "diskwithpartlabel" as a reasonable contraction of &q...