Bug#484228: grub-pc: root partition fail to mount by uuid

[Marcus Better]

> > I got an unbootable system with this version too. Grub failed to locate
> > the kernel. I use dm-crypt encrypted root over LVM. Had to boot from a
> > rescue CD and enable GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID.
>
> GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID does nothing to fix "Grub failed to locate the
> kernel".

Well, the exact error message was gone by the time I got to send the e-mail, 
but in fact none of the configured operating systems worked at all. Linux  
failed with something like "Kernel must be loaded first" IIRC. But even 
Memtest86+ and Windowses failed to boot, with a different error message.

I actually managed to locate and boot the kernel and the initrd from the grub 
command line despite this, but then the initrd never managed to find the root 
partition (it just waited indefinitely for the it to come up).

I don't know if it's the same bug but it went away after I set 
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID _and_ upgraded to 1.96+20080621-1. Unfortunately I 
cannot investigate much further since I cannot risk messing up this system 
just now.

Cheers,

Marcus

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