Am Freitag, den 25.12.2009, 12:18 -0500 schrieb vr: > I'm using the amd64 flavor of the 503 netinst installation CD. In my > case > I do not have a network connection available during initial > installation. > > Since there is no network initially, is it possible to acquire the > UUID of > a USB device, in human readable form, using only the tools on the > netinst > CD, so the UUID may be supplied to grub at the end of installation? > And if > so, how?
For the root= Linux parameter UUIDs are now by default used, especially on a fresh new install. If you mean for the GRUB root device, then you have to use GRUB 2. Which with lenny means either install in expert mode or preseed grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy with true. Or if you really have to get it yourself for some custom boot entries you make then just use in the installed system either `grub-probe -t fs_uuid -d /dev/XYZ' or `grub-probe -t fs_uuid /path' Doestn't matter what GRUB version gets used in that case, both depend on grub-common which provides grub-probe. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
