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

[Robert Millan]

retitle 484228 grub should avoid passing UUID to Linux when not using initrd
severity 484228 important
thanks

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:54:59AM +0200, Marcus Better wrote:
> 
> 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.

That means you found two bugs.  One of them was in GRUB and got fixed in 
1.96+20080621-1.  The other one is not in GRUB.

Which if we add to the TWO DIFFERENT BUGS we additionally have in #484228,
makes for real fun to deal with.  To summarize for the casual reader:

 A- The one reported by Remi Vanicat was about working around #484297 in
    udev, and was fixed.

 B- The one _you_ reported are actually two different new bugs.

 C- The one reported by Nathan A. Stine is a problem specific to people
    building custom Linux images, which has different severity and is
    fixed upstream.

Since A is fixed, B1 is fixed, and B2 is not in GRUB (please report, probably
belongs to initramfs-tools), let us say that #484228 is about C now.  Do not
add _anything_ new to this bug unless it's really about C.  File a separate
bug if you must.

And btw, I would really appreciate if you people would stop recycling random
bugs.  Every minute I spend sorting out this kind of mess is time I don't spend
fixing the actual problems.

Thanks

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