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

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 06:38:54PM -0400, Jim Bray wrote:
> [...], given that automatically 
> generating grub.cfg boot entries can result in a non-booting system,

How's this related to UUIDs?  (btw, manually generating boot entries can
result in a non-bootable system too, and is in fact more likely).

> and 
> that many people prefer human-readable config file entries in the Unix 
> tradition and not a bunch of hexadecimal garbage in our fstabs and boot 
> config files.

The majority of people prefer systems that can boot, which in multiple disk
scenarios GRUB can only archieve via BIOS numbering guesswork.

Anyway, if it really bothers you, just adjust the config files in /etc/grub.d
to your needs.  It's hard to get any more customizable than that...

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Robert Millan

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