Attached is a debdiff that supports grub boot for UUID for Intrepid. It supports booting by UUID for the following partition types:
Partition Tested ext2 Y ext3 Y fat/vfat Y jfs Y reiserfs Y xfs Y ocfs N ddf_raid N hfs N luks N The tests were performed by creating several partitions on a 4Gb USB Mass Storage Device of the above types and copying /boot into each partition and then booting from the relevant partition. Partitions 1-4 and logical partitions 5+ were tested on USB and physical hard disks. A typical grub menu.lst using the uuid command is as follows: title uuid ext3 uuid 98ab0550-7e12-4da7-ad6d-3d7dc9b32ab0 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=98ab0550-7e12-4da7-ad6d-3d7dc9b32ab0 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic title uuid vfat uuid 4868-85B1 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=4868-85B1 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic One extra feature is just using the uuid command without specifying a UUID will cause grub to find and print out all know (and supported) UUID's that it can boot from, in the form: (hdX,Y) filesystem uuid e.g.: (hd0,0) ext3 98ab0550-7e12-4da7-ad6d-3d7dc9b32ab0 (hd1,0) vfat 4868-85B1 (hd1,1) xfs 6f2ebb0f-f6d1-4e7b-9292-942c0c3d021b Note: The UUIDs must match those as reported by `ls /dev/disk/by-uuid` - some filesystem UUID's are derived from volume labels and the UUID matching is case sensitive. ** Attachment added: "Intrepid Grub 0.97 UUID debdiff" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15685494/grub-0.97.uuid.debdiff ** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Target: None => intrepid-alpha-1 -- Grub: Add detection of bootable disk partitions by UUID https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244141 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
