Re: Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

[Dominik Sznajder <dominik.sznajder@student.kuleuven.be>]

Charlie Kroeger wrote:
> > Ok, another in the continuing saga.
> >     
>
> When I upgrade Grub2 which is frequently, I get the following error message
> when I reboot:
>
>   Booting 'Debian Gnu/Linux, Linux 2.6.30-1-686
> error: unknown argument '--no-floppy'
> failed to boot default entries.
> press any key to continue.
>
> If I press any key I see the edit screen of Grub and it only contains the one
> line:
>
> set root=(hd0,1)
>
> If I reboot it with CTRL+ALT+DEL and restore the default script I can edit
> that and remove the offending '--no-floppy' part of the line and then boot
> normally with the CTRL+x command
>
> my solution to this in the past has been to 're-edit' the following file:
>
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
> where I take out all the references to '--no-floppy'
>
> This is part of that file edited:
>
> =====================================================
>
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
> #
> # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
> # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
> #
>   
Edit /etc/grub.d/ and /etc/default/grub, so that grub-mkconfig produces 
what you want during upgrading.
> All references to a floppy are removed. I don't have a floppy and there isn't
> one mentioned in the bios, so..
>
> Question: If I commented out every line in the file starting with:
>
> #search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 8c502a23-b2ab-4670-b4e8-86d79b595aa5
> would the same thing be accomplish without screwing things up?
>
> Question: is there a way to prevent this file from being replaced every time
> Grub upgrades or would that not be wise?
>   
It does not answer any of your questions, but hopefully solves your 
Grub2 problem.

DS