From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 06:34:42 +0000, root wrote:   
      
   I haven't tried it myself, still use good old /dev/sda for boot and /dev/   
   sda1 for root. However, it does seem as if lilo does have support for   
   uuid and that your syntax is correct.   
      
   > I get conflicting answers from google. I tried a root = "UUID=........"   
   >   
   > and lilo accepted the .conf file but the boot ends in a kernel panic.   
      
   My guess is that you wrote the uuid itself wrong.   
      
   > the /etc/fstab file accepts the UUID entry and works if the lilo.conf   
   > file uses /dev/sda1 instead of the UUID.   
      
   Maybe you can get it to work if you revert lilo.conf to /dev/sda1 and   
   then use the  /usr/sbin/lilo-uuid-diskid utility and hope it gets it   
   right. There is also a man page for lilo-uuid-diskid.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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