Richard Owlett wrote: ... > I see no reference for Grub being able to read a partition's label only > its UUID. i don't use UUIDs (LABELS only) so i do this in /etc/default/grub: ===== # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true ===== HTH songbird