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Re: Having Grub2 use UUID instead of (hd0,1)?



On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:24:19, Nate Bargmann wrote:
 
> Lines 4 and 5 seem to be in conflict with each other.  Why have a "set
> root=(hd1.1)" line when the "search" line that follows specifies the
> correct UUID?  My question was, how can I tell the scripts to not issue
> the "set root" line and just use the "search" line with the UUID?  Will
> Grub2 work with just the UUID (it would seem the Ubunutu folks should
> have solved this already)?  To me it seems that using UUID should be
> preferred.

According to the thread at [0] it seems grub should work fine with 
either of the two lines (and you can even use the label instead of UUID) 
and the 'search ... --set' actually overrides the 'set root' directive.

Why the 'set root' is still kept beats me...

Regards,
Andrei
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