Bug#486119: Proposed fix to update-grub_lib to stop unwanted 'search --fs-uuid'

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:16:40PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote:
>    I have just installed grub-pc version  1.96+20080621-1.
> 
>    My /etc/default/grub contains:
> 
> # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter
> to Linux
> GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
> 
>   'search --fs-uuid' lines should not be generated by update-grub, as I 
> have the "GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID" option set.

'search --fs-uuid' has nothing to do with Linux.  They're two different uses
of UUIDs.

Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486119#17

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