Re: Grub 2

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Tixy <debianuser@tixy.myzen.co.uk>:
>  On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:33 +0000, James Allsopp wrote:
> <snip>
> > Problem is, I want to use grub2 as the first thing I'm going to do
> > is upgrade to debian testing, which uses this.
> <snip>
> 
>  Is there a reason for not just installing Debian Testing rather than
>  trying to get Lenny on there first? The testing install would add Grub2
>  and I believe that it (and fstab) now use UUIDs to identify drives,

Speaking from a new testing install, correct, and I concur.

>  which helps avoid hdX/sdX drive identification mixups.

Can't speak to that.

>  I a newbie to a lot of this, so may be talking rubbish. ;-)

Sucks to be us.  :-|


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