Re: Even More Grub & UUID

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:19:26 -0400 (EDT), Freeman wrote:
> 
> I believe those files generate the /boot/grub/grub.cfg when "grup-update"
> [sic] is run.
> 
> However, the system still boots off menu.lst.  It had to be edited to boot
> the system correctly.  grub-update writes a non-existent UUID to menu.lst,
> which will mean manual editing after every kernel upgrade.
> 
> But I am burying my question.
> 
> My real question, where could grub-update be getting that wrong UUID from?
>

I'm not quite as ignorant of grub1 as I am of grub2, as I still use grub1 on
some of my machines.  (I haven't gotten around to converting them
to lilo yet.)  But anyway, I believe that with grub-legacy the correct
command is

   update-grub

not

   grub-update

As to incorrect UUIDs, could this be due to the different naming convention
for partition numbers between grub1 and grub2?  If I recall correctly, grub1
numbers them starting with 0, while grub2 numbers them starting with 1.
It's just a guess, I don't claim to know the answer.

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