Bug#707058: os-prober: os-prober makes different UUID's in same menuentry of a partition

[Joachim Schmidt]

Package: grub-common
Version: 1.99-27+deb7u1
Severity: important
File: os-prober

Dear Maintainer,

I was cloning a squeeze partition (-> wheezy upgrade) in my testing machine.
First with gparted and later also with tune2fs I changed the UUID of that
partition and started update-grub (with os-prober active) in an other wheezy
partition to make this cloned partition bootable. A boot of the cloned squeeze
was not possible and in grub.cfg (in wheezy) I found an entry for this
partition with two different UUID's: first (in search line) the new and second
(in linux line) the old one. Changing the UUID of the cloned partition only
effected the first entry.
So I went to other computer with this partion (without an other partition with
this UUID), put the old UUID in the partition and after update-grub I could
boot cloned squeeze.

Thank You
Joachim



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii  gettext-base        0.18.1.1-9
ii  libc6               2.13-38
pn  libdevmapper1.02.1  <none>
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1.1
ii  libfuse2            2.9.0-2+deb7u1
pn  liblzma5            <none>
pn  zlib1g              <none>

Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
pn  os-prober  <none>

Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn  desktop-base   <none>
pn  grub-emu       <none>
pn  multiboot-doc  <none>
pn  xorriso        <none>

-- no debconf information