> I didn't quite get as far as understanding why the BOGUS NID matters and what that breaks, or what is fixed by the change, fully.
The issue is that the unique identifiers are meant to be unique between drives, but some specific SSDs do not report unique values, which makes them difficult to identify if you have more than one in the same machine. The quirk makes the kernel generate a unique value by including the serial number instead. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2083176 Title: grub-efi/install_devices becoming stale due to by-id/nvme-eui.* symlinks disappearing Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: A family member just sent me this dialog that popped up when they installed their updates today. I'm not sure how a regular user is supposed to be able to handle what is presented here. Do they check the box? What happens if they don't? Heck, even I don't know what the proper action is here. This dialog box needs to be removed and a safe default needs to be applied automatically during upgrades. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/2083176/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
