Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD
On Wed 04 Mar 2015 at 16:13:03 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 March 2015 16:03:28 Bret Busby wrote:
> > Neither that screen, nor the one that showed the partitions,
> > identified using the UUID's (which, to a user like me, in the context
> > of trying to restore the GRUB multi-OS selection bootloader, are
> > meaningless, and, as useful as listing the subatomic particles, or the
> > elements of the Periodic Table), showed the labels that had been set
> > for the partitions, and so, did not show into which partition, each of
> > the operating systems had been installed.
>
> So you had, in fact, set labels for the partitions? And it just wasn't
> showing them?
I think he is saying the partitions were identified (as they are) but
not with UUIDs or LABELs. It was an expectation.
> Had you edited fstab to show them?
LABELs exist (or do not exist) independently of what is in fstab. The
system has not yet booted into an OS so fstab is not yet read.
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