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  1. Bug #496435
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 496435

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Felix Zielcke (fzielcke) wrote : Re: [Bug 496435] Re: upgrades of the grub-pc package can overwrite wrong MBR

Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 21:15 +0000 schrieb bwallum:
> set root=UUID=fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
> fd0c6442-dc3d-49ba-8e46-91657460fe52

The search --fs-uuid --set line will set $root the device with that
UUID.
There's no need to change the set root and set root=UUID= like used with
the Linux kernel is just wrong and doestn't work.

>
> It shows in the grub boot menu ok then fails because it it cannot find
> a
> file (but doesn't report which file it cannot find - another
> enhancement
> request please). The UUID refers to the boot partition on the external
> drive which contains the grub files and the os.

For now you have to type the commands of grub.cfg into GRUB's
commandline yourself to see it.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer