Bug#1034610: grub-common no longer supports labels

[Steve McIntyre]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi!

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 02:52:31PM -0300, Dario Susman wrote:
>Package: grub-common
>Version: 2.06-8
>Severity: critical
>Justification: breaks the whole system
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>After upgrading to latest version of grub-common and kernel, the system
>wouldn't boot up with the latest kernel. The device paths changed, sda1
>to sdb1. I noticed that the grub config changed to use UUIDs, however
>/etc/default/grub is set to use LABELS. Which is something I prefer to
>do.
>
>It seems that grub-mkinfo no longer supports the GRUB_ENABLE_LINUX_LABEL
>parameters and has to be re-written for it to work.

Looking in the history, I can't see where we've ever supported
this. Can you tell me which version(s) ever had this working for you
please?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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