UUID support in GRUB

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:00:30AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
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> Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:
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> > I'd like to receive some feedback on:
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> >   - Whether it would be preferable to wait untill beta2 is out to allow this
> >     change to migrate to testing.
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> Please wait us to finish beta2.

Ok, it's in 0.97-40.  Some notes:

 1- It is disabled for installs that have root filesystem in LVM or RAID,
    because of bug #484297.

 2- It does only affect menu.lst generation, NOT menu.lst update.  So unless
    the admin explicitly takes action, it will only be enabled in new installs.

 3- Admin can disable it simply by setting the "kopt" variable to its
    traditional device-name value (and - related to #2 - subsequent update-grub
    runs will make it persist, as usual).

Please test this actively if you can (on an existing install, simply by
removing menu.lst and regenerating it).

-- 
Robert Millan

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