Re: Specifying "search --label" instead of "search --file" in grub

2016-01-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > So, based on your suggestions, I came up with the following patch. I > haven’t yet tested it on the bare metal, but I’ve confirmed that it > produces sensible grub.cfg files when the root FS has a UUID, label, or > none of these. I confirm it works on th

Re: Specifying "search --label" instead of "search --file" in grub

2016-01-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
(I’ve opened a bug for this, but debbugs.gnu.org is currently down…) Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Today while installing GuixSD I hit a really painful and hard to track > down bug. It can happen when you've got multiple Guix installs which > both have the same kernel. > > # Set 'root'

Specifying "search --label" instead of "search --file" in grub

2015-12-20 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Heya all, Today while installing GuixSD I hit a really painful and hard to track down bug. It can happen when you've got multiple Guix installs which both have the same kernel. # Set 'root' to the partition that contains the kernel. search --file --set ~a/~a~% Since this searches across mul