** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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comment out _set_root_ in grub.cfg
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I respectfully disagree; I think 'If --set is specified, the first
device found is set to a variable. If no variable name is specified,
"root" is used.' is sufficiently clear.
However, rather than using precious bytes on more carefully explanatory
documentation here, the 'search' command should be
Colin Watson and my suspicions about search behavior is right:
search does NOT change variable "root" if the device was not found.
But there is a lack of clear wordings of that fact in
grub> help search
text.
So, I changed this bug to NEW again, hoping documentation strings will get
clearer..
No, this is quite deliberate; it's a safety fallback in case UUID search
doesn't work, so I'm not going to remove it. 'help search' at the GRUB
command line documents the behaviour quite clearly, I think.
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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comment out _set_root_ in
I wrote this bug, because there isn't any clear spezification what "search"
really does!
If there is this undocumented feature I thought about:
"search" should not touch the "root" if it does NOT find anything!
Then "set root" is valuable.
If it does touch (root=NULL)
then "set root" should be c
