On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 08:47 +0200, Frederik Schwarzer wrote: > [Ben Hutchings - Donnerstag 08 April 2010 04:52:24] > > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 00:10 +0200, Frederik Schwarzer wrote: > > > Running grub-mkconfig rewrote the config to using root=/dev/sda1 again. > > > > That seems like a bug in grub-mkconfig; it is generally correct to > > identify the root device by UUID (even though that has not worked here). > > Yes, I thought the same. However, even if I re-install the same > kernel image deb file with dpkg using the same version of grub-mkconfig, > it turns out correct this time. Strange. Anway, as Maks said, UUID isn't working here as you're not using an initramfs. If you really don't want to use an initramfs you should revert the root device ID to a device name in /etc/grub/default (GRUB 2) or /boot/grub/menu.lst (GRUB 1). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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