Re: How do I enable UUID in Debian? (Thanks!)

[Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl>]

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 06:31 +1000, Alex Samad wrote:

> Yep this will work (ie the UUID), not sure about the init statement,
> have a look in /boot/grub/menu.lst, there  should be a line that looks
> like 
> # kopt=root=/dev/md1 ro console=tty0 selinux=0
> 
> but update-grub should look at your fstab, which should have something
> like
> 
> UUID=<UUID> / .....
> 
> don't be too worried about stuffing it up, with grub you can always edit
> the line at boot up, in fact try testing before hand
> 
> Alex
> 
> > > 

Thanks all for the help! I've added the following line to my grub.conf and all works fine now :)


> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25-2-686-bigmem
> root            (hd0,1)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686-bigmem root=UUID=da99b664-75cb-4809-9521-e0f282cc0522 ro quiet
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-686-bigmem
> 


Regards,

Aniruddha