Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>> Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fstab)
>> I have two nearly identical sets of partitions, so it may be tricky to
>> tell them apart. Is grub2 clever enough to figure it all out anyway?
>> And what data does it use to this end? (so I can make sure it's right!)
>
> UUIDs? What failure mode(s) do you have in mind, because I can't think
> of any.
It probably is os-prober that I mean. The misconfiguration I have in
mind is matching one system's /boot with another systems's /. I've had
it happen on a laptop sometime ago. and it sure messed up my upgrades. I
have no idea how it happened, but it has made me paranoid.
-- hendrik
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