Dave, I wasn't at the meeting, so I don't know if you got an answer to your question or not.
I guess I'm a little confused by what you are asking. Grub loads its menu.lst (aka. grub.conf) directly from the boot file system and then finds the necessary kernel and initrd files by reading the file system at boot time. That's what makes it nice when compared to something like LILO, since you can edit/tweak grub entries while in grub before booting. As far as the UUID root stuff, that is actually a function of the boot process and not grub. Grub passes the root=uuid into to init during the boot processes. Then the boot scripts must mount a root filesystem (using the root= information) and then switch the file system root from the initial initrd root image to the permanent root file system (specific by root=). It looks like the grub menu entry that you e-mail is used to chainload another boot loader. (windows?) As far as I know, grub doesn't need to know or use uuids at all. I work at CSBSJU and run their Linux network. I've used Fedora Core 5 and Fedora 7 in the past for the desktop systems. Currently I'm building the Fedora 9 image for the next school year. I ended up removing all traces of the UUIDs from grub.conf (aka. menu.lst) and /etc/fstab so that I could easily copy (using dump/restore) the ext3 file systems of my image build system to all the other desktops. So, you can edit the fstab and grub.conf and replace the UUID entries with either the traditional device entries (like /dev/sda1) or use the label concept if you know your file system labels (LABEL=/boot; use tune2fs -l DEV to find your file system labels) Jason David Sundquist wrote: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:49:20 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [scalug] scalug meeting jimmys pour house sat 2pm > > I will be there! Anyone besides me having trouble installing Fedora > 9? I think adaconda installer is suffering from improvement. Maybe > we can discuss this at the meeting. Bob, are you going to come? > Anyone have any info on uuid identification of root in GRUB? It seems > that GRUB entries with root=uuid... in the menu.lst in the partition > that linux is installed in, does not work with the standard GRUB > entries in the menu.lst that is booted from the MBR that I have been > using: > > title Fedora 9 on hdc1 video: 1360x768 > root (hd2,0) > chainloader +1 > > Dave S. _______________________________________________ scalug-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/scalug-list
