On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:21:31PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Aniruddha (<mailing_list@orange.nl>) wrote:
>
> > Since my harddrive names keep changing after each reboot I have to set
> > UUID in grub to make sure I can boot. I've done this before in Gentoo
> > and I wonder how this works in Debian.
> >
> > Do I have to install a special package? Which line do I have to add to
> > my menu.lst? I was thinking about something like this:
> >
> >> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686
> >> root (hd2,1)
> >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686
> >> root=UUID=dd4927a2-e1f4-4955-8aa7-76a11d8c3aca init=/linuxrc
> >> ramdisk=8192
> >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686
Yep this will work (ie the UUID), not sure about the init statement,
have a look in /boot/grub/menu.lst, there should be a line that looks
like
# kopt=root=/dev/md1 ro console=tty0 selinux=0
but update-grub should look at your fstab, which should have something
like
UUID=<UUID> / .....
don't be too worried about stuffing it up, with grub you can always edit
the line at boot up, in fact try testing before hand
Alex
> >
> >
> > Is this correct? Thanks in advance!
>
> I have not tested this for the root partition, but if you use initramfs
> for your initrd, which includes udev in the initial ram disk, you
> should be able to access /dev/disk/by-uuid/<UUID>
>
> regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
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How do I enable UUID in Debian?
