No, this is quite deliberate; it's a safety fallback in case UUID search doesn't work, so I'm not going to remove it. 'help search' at the GRUB command line documents the behaviour quite clearly, I think.
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- comment out _set_root_ in grub.cfg https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549227 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs