On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 
> But when installing grub2 to an MBR. all this is automated.  It looks 
> around on the available disks and figures out shoch partition goes with 
> which.

Grub is just a bootloader, you must be thinking about os-prober.
 
> Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fstab) I 
> have two nearly identical sets of partitions, so it may be tricky to tell 
> them apart.  Is grub2 clever enough to figure it all out anyway?  And 
> what data does it use to this end? (so I can make sure it's right!)

UUIDs? What failure mode(s) do you have in mind, because I can't think 
of any.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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