On Thu 18 Jan 2018 at 11:52:11 (-0500), Marc Auslander wrote: > Dave Sherohman <d...@sherohman.org> writes: > > >What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to > >refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution? > > > > I don't know about "recommended" but could you put your own menu > entry into /etc/grub.d and make it the default?
I prefer to let grub do the grunt work and then run a filter over grub.cfg. I use LABELs myself; the filter finds the necessary information in /run/udev/data and performs substitutions of --fs-uuid options, root=UUID= and the UUIDs themselves. (It also mangles, to my taste, the menuentry_id_option strings etc a little further.) It takes no time to run a filter whenever grub.cfg gets rebuilt. I don't encrypt system partitions or use VMs so I don't know how well a filtering scheme would translate to that. Cheers, David.
