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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?



On Fri,25.Dec.09, 16:19:13, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition
> /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation?  The reason
> I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda,
> but Debian's Grub2 pukes on it.  Specifically, installing and updating
> Grub results in "/dev/sda" in /boot/grub.cfg and then boot fails as
> grub evidently sees it as an IDE drive, which it is.  It seems as
> though if Grub could use UUI internally as the kernel does, this issue
> would be resolved.  So far my Googler has come up empty.

Hmm, didn't need to do anything special. The default config for grub2 in 
squeeze and sid has this:


,----[ /etc/default/grub ]
| # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
| #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
`----

Regards,
Andrei
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