Bug#710168: grub2: GURB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true not handled properly with /dev/mapper/... (dmraid) devices

[Quentin Lefebvre]

Package: grub2
Version: grub-common
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I have trouble to boot Debian Wheezy stable release with a dmraid device, as described in #699437.
I may have found a workaround, which is to activate the directive :
	GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
in /etc/default/grub.

Unfortunately, update-grub is generating a grub.cfg file where linux lines mention
	root=/dev/sdb2
while this should be
	root=/dev/mapper/sil_biabbhcdccdf2
..
Indeed, my device.map mentions
	(hd0) /dev/mapper/sil_biabbhcdccdf
..

If this bug could be solved, it would help to boot computers with RAID (dmraid) devices.
As for now, I have to write the grub.cfg file by hand, which is not a proper solution.

Thanks for your astounding work.

Best regards,
Quentin Lefebvre


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash