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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