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Re: Even More Grub & UUID



On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 04:55:19PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> 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
> 

Most correct. (Shoddy posting skills no doubt.)

> 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.
> 

That explains the (H0,2) notation rather than the old style (H0,1) for
//dev/hda2 in in the boot/grub/grub.cfg .  Thanks.  I reversed my edit on
/that.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Freeman

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