On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:40:16 +0400, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > On 09/15/12 00:42, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >> >> It probably is os-prober that I mean. The misconfiguration I have in >> mind is matching one system's /boot with another systems's /. I've had >> it happen on a laptop sometime ago. and it sure messed up my upgrades. >> I have no idea how it happened, but it has made me paranoid. >> >> -- hendrik >> >> >> >> > Hi. > > Useless entries in grub.cfg (with non-matched kernel and root, e.g. > kernel from stable and root from testing) or probably even no correct > one - is normal for 30_os-prober and 10_linux scripts. I don't think, > that there is a simply way to fix them.
You'd think that os-prober could use the entries in /etc/fstab to identify the /boot that goes with a particular root partition. (That assumes, or course, that /etc is in the root partition and not separately mounted. But if it was separately mounted, there would be no way for it to read /etc/fstab in order to find out what to mount for / etc.) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k32ipb$q76$1...@ger.gmane.org
