On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:16:57PM -0700, Word Wizard wrote:
> Here are the uncommented lines :
>
> default 0
> timeout 3
> color light-cyan/black blink-light-red/black
> splashimage=/boot/grub/splashimages/debsplash.xpm.gz
>
>
> title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.
Here are the uncommented lines :
default 0
timeout 3
color light-cyan/black blink-light-red/black
splashimage=/boot/grub/splashimages/debsplash.xpm.gz
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
uuidca270e23-47e8-4f25-a295-4e0894fab4a7
kernel /boot/
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:58:41 -0700 (PDT)
"Tim Wescott" dijo:
> I don't know if Grub can be made to use the /dev/hdxxx notation; I
> certainly hope it still can.
Yes it can. And I hope it always will be able to. When the user gets an
Error 15 there is no other way to tell Grub where to find the r
http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-manage-your-disk-by-uuid-on.html
Managing disks by UUID lets you specify which disk to use, even if the
loader's flavor-of-the-week -- or worse, the hardware -- decides to change
it. When the USB gods decide to change your disk's position in th
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 13:40 -0700, Word Wizard wrote:
> Why did they migrate to UUIDs in grub? What is the advantage? Can you
> employ the other device notations in grub? Can lilo be used in Intrepid
> instead? Or another boot loader?
>
Can you post your grub.conf to the list? I believe a b
I noticed that for some reason grub uses UUIDs to determine the location
of the kernel in the menu.lst. For some reason unknown to me, somebody
decided UUIds are preferable to the (hd0) notation I've come know in
Windows boot.ini or the /dev/hda notation of lilo. It appears to me that
UUIds are no
