On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:38:07 +0300, gevisz wrote: > > It sounds like you are specifying the root device by device node and > > those have changed with the addition of a new drive. Using UUID or > > LABEL will avoid this problem. > > Thank you for the prompt reply! > > In my fstab, all the old drives are specified by UUID. > And the new one does not have UUID yet. > > But it seems that GRUB does not read fstab... :(
It does not, because it has not loaded the kernel yet, so it cannot do anything on the system. > Where else should I specify them? grub.cfg in the kernel options. > Do you think that running > # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > with a new drive connected will be enough? grub-mkconfig should use UUIDs by default, unless you have uncommented #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true in /etc/default/grub -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 8: Tight slacks
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