Ubuntu
grub package

update-grub needs to support the new uuid command.

Bug #281100 reported by Evan on 2008-10-10

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Evan	Ubuntu ubuntu-8.10
	Intrepid	Fix Released	High	Evan	Ubuntu ubuntu-8.10

Bug Description

Binary package hint: grub

This bug report is to track the progress of integrating the functionality provided by Colin King's specify device by uuid patch (debian/patches/uuid.diff) into update-grub.

Related branches

lp://staging/~ubuntu-core-dev/grub/ubuntu

lp://staging/ubuntu/lucid/grub

Evan (ev) on 2008-10-10

Changed in grub:
assignee:	nobody → evand
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → ubuntu-8.10
status:	New → Confirmed

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Evan (ev) wrote on 2008-10-10:

grub-uuid-root.patch Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain)

Proposed patch to implement this functionality.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2008-10-10:

This looks fine, although if there's the slightest whiff of a regression we'll need to guard it with an environment variable and use it only for USB installs.

Evan (ev) on 2008-10-12

Changed in grub:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-10-12:

This bug was fixed in the package grub - 0.97-29ubuntu41

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grub (0.97-29ubuntu41) intrepid; urgency=low

* Write uuid option instead of root where possible (LP: #281100, #8497).

-- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:27:56 -0400

Changed in grub:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote on 2008-10-17:

Could someone describe a test case for this please se we can attempt some regression testing?

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Christophe (christophe-fish) wrote on 2008-12-22:

choix.lst Edit (318 bytes, text/plain)

I encountered a problem with it : it breaks compatibility with real legacy grub.
My grub is installed in (hd0), with its stages and a simple menu.lst (attached) kept appart from any distribution. As I did not use chain-loading, but only configfile instead, it was failing to boot (uuid myuuid not understood and skipped by my grub).
However, this patch is somehow important as it could also fix once for all the old/historical errata entry in Debian (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata.en.html : Disk devices may change on reboot).
It breaks full compatibility, and as Grub legacy is no longer being officially developed, I believe an effort should be made to merge it with other distributions.