On Fri,25.Dec.09, 16:19:13, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Is it possible to tell Grub2 to use the UUID of the partition > /boot/grub resides instead of its default (hd0,1) notation? The reason > I ask is that I am using a custom kernel that treats all drives as sda, > but Debian's Grub2 pukes on it. Specifically, installing and updating > Grub results in "/dev/sda" in /boot/grub.cfg and then boot fails as > grub evidently sees it as an IDE drive, which it is. It seems as > though if Grub could use UUI internally as the kernel does, this issue > would be resolved. So far my Googler has come up empty.
Hmm, didn't need to do anything special. The default config for grub2 in squeeze and sid has this: ,----[ /etc/default/grub ] | # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux | #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true `---- Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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