Bug#525416: grub assigns wrong disk ids
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> It happens because we're guessing how BIOS enumerates drives, which is bound
> to break in situations like these.
>
> The solution is to use UUIDs to identify the filesystems we want to access. I
> implemented UUID-based search paths for every disk access in the whole boot
> process, just use GRUB 2 and it'll resolve this fine.
In any case I think an option to review what grub is going to do could
be useful. Aside from the problem mentioned, grub also grabbed info from
a backup partition I used for another distribution I was trying,
resulting in a grub menu with a lot of useless lines: it just added
everything it could find without asking. I apologize if there is some
option I missed.
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