On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:21:31PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Aniruddha (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Since my harddrive names keep changing after each reboot I have to set > > UUID in grub to make sure I can boot. I've done this before in Gentoo > > and I wonder how this works in Debian. > > > > Do I have to install a special package? Which line do I have to add to > > my menu.lst? I was thinking about something like this: > > > >> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 > >> root (hd2,1) > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 > >> root=UUID=dd4927a2-e1f4-4955-8aa7-76a11d8c3aca init=/linuxrc > >> ramdisk=8192 > >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
Yep this will work (ie the UUID), not sure about the init statement, have a look in /boot/grub/menu.lst, there should be a line that looks like # kopt=root=/dev/md1 ro console=tty0 selinux=0 but update-grub should look at your fstab, which should have something like UUID=<UUID> / ..... don't be too worried about stuffing it up, with grub you can always edit the line at boot up, in fact try testing before hand Alex > > > > > > Is this correct? Thanks in advance! > > I have not tested this for the root partition, but if you use initramfs > for your initrd, which includes udev in the initial ram disk, you > should be able to access /dev/disk/by-uuid/<UUID> > > regards > Andreas Janssen > > -- > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 > Registered Linux User #267976 > http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that George Bush may or may not make." - George W. Bush
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