Bug#861053: grub2: grub doesn't fully honor GRUB_LINUX_DISABLE_UUID; UUIDs cannot work here

[Joshua]

Package: grub2
Version: grub2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

apt-get dist-upgrade ignored the fact that grub2 is pinned to never and
installed grub2 anyway. update-grub promptly installed a bad configuration
file. The pin file is still present.

It is not possible to use UUID search on this system as this will not
result in a sane configuration. There are multiple paths to /, only 1
of which may be used, and the first choice on the list is not it.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

apt-get remove grub2
lilo -t && lilo

I know from experience that editing /boot/grub/grub.cfg is futile.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages grub2 depends on:
pn  grub-common  <none>
pn  grub-pc      <none>

grub2 recommends no packages.

grub2 suggests no packages.