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.
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Kind Regards,
Freeman
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