Re: How do I prevent Grub from getting automagically updated?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 10/08/08 00:28, Aniruddha wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:15 -0400, David Sanders wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 07 October 2008 05:09:28 pm Aniruddha wrote:
> > > > Every time a new kernel gets installed, my menu.lst gets updated.
> > > > Problem is, that it always points to the wrong hard drive. Therefor I
> > > > would like to stop Grub from updating automagically. How can I achieve
> > > > this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Aniruddha
> > > Better to edit menu.lst and put the correct hard drive in the # 
> > > groot= line.
> >
> > I tried that once, it didn't seem to work. Anyhow I prefer to be in
> > control of my grub.conf. Manually adding boot entries works best for me.
> > Is it all possible to turn this feature off?
>
> Do you use raw device names or labels/UUIDs?

That's something I changed legacy grub for. There is no way to substitute

root          (hd0,0)

for example, with a label/UUID.

I changed that so that you can say:

find            /wd80_0jd-60.05
root            FILE=/wd80_0jd-60.05

So now you are totally label oriented: grub uses as root the partition 
where file wd80_0jd-60.05 is located.

The down side is you can only boot when the labels + label files are in 
place. E.g. doing mondo restores.

Hugo