Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-07-03 Thread Jim Bray
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:21:31PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote:   The stock '10_linux' entry will be overwritten every time a new version of grub comes out, or at the very least dpkg will ask me which config file I want, the old or new.br It doesn't work

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:21:31PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote:   The stock '10_linux' entry will be overwritten every time a new version of grub comes out, or at the very least dpkg will ask me which config file I want, the old or new.br It doesn't work differently than any other config file. Btw,

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:38:54PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote: [...], given that automatically generating grub.cfg boot entries can result in a non-booting system, How's this related to UUIDs? (btw, manually generating boot entries can result in a non-bootable system too, and is in fact more

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-26 Thread Jim Bray
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:38:54PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote: [...], given that automatically generating grub.cfg boot entries can result in a non-booting system, How's this related to UUIDs? (btw, manually generating boot entries can result in a

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:16:40PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote: I have just installed grub-pc version 1.96+20080621-1. My /etc/default/grub contains: # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass root=UUID=xxx parameter to Linux GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true 'search --fs-uuid' lines

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-25 Thread Jim Bray
I propose that a grub option be added to disable all uses of UUIDS, and that this option be made the default, given that automatically generating grub.cfg boot entries can result in a non-booting system, and that many people prefer human-readable config file entries in the Unix tradition

Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

2008-06-23 Thread Jim Bray
I have just installed grub-pc version 1.96+20080621-1. My /etc/default/grub contains: # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass root=UUID=xxx parameter to Linux GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true 'search --fs-uuid' lines should not be generated by update-grub, as I have the