/etc/default/grub cannot disable use of UUID
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub2 (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: grub-common
Although disabeling the use of UUID's should be possible from /etc/default/grub, it cannot work of obvious reasons. This might not seem very important, but it makes image-based deployments almost impossible if not fixed.
Even though /usr/sbin/
Approximately line 170
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if fs_uuid=
echo "search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ${fs_uuid}"
fi
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could easily be replaced by something like the following lines, and the issue would be solved :-)
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if [ ! "x${GRUB_
if fs_uuid=
echo "search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ${fs_uuid}"
fi
fi
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-Eskild
this affects netbased installs