On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 04:23:09PM -0500, Roy wrote:
> Yes. This is the way it was once done. Grub2 seems to be using UUIDs to load
> the kernel. I need to know how to avoid using UUIDs in grub2. I could try
> using grub legacy, but first I need to be able to get into the distribution
> to install grub legacy. Fedora uses grub legacy, but it only installs an
> entry for Fedora. The only non Fedora distro that will boot from that drive
Fedora's grub only recognizes Fedora and Windows. However, it also uses
UUIDs by default.
I haven't worked with grub two--in old style grub, as mentioned in my
other email, I just manually edit--that is, if I get a failed to find
root type message, I reboot, then edit the kernel line. (Fedora--don't
know about Ubuntu--has made the decision to have a 0 second grub timeout
by default for no apparent reason, ignoring the many comments pointing
out why it's a bad idea, so one has to either time hitting another key
properly, which often doesn't work in VMs, or manually edit grub).
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