Comment 3 for bug 499483

Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 14:36 +0000 schrieb Eskild Jacobsen:
> Public bug reported:
>
> 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/grub-mkconfig is correct, it sources
> /usr/lib/grub
> /grub-mkconfig_lib which completly ignores the entry altogether.
>

Note that it's called GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID and not GRUB_DISABLE_UUID.
We won't change that upstream.
We only made it for the Linux kernel root= parameter because in some
configurations root=UUID doestn't work and we can't reliable detect
that.
Our plans are to get totally rid of device.map and so the use of the old
GRUB Legacy style `set root=(hd,xy)' in grub.cfg and only rely on search
--fs-uuid.
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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer