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bug#27735: Lookup by UUID
From: |
Danny Milosavljevic |
Subject: |
bug#27735: Lookup by UUID |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:38:01 +0200 |
Hi Ludo,
> With iso9660, it works… by chance, because GRUB’s “search --fs-uuid”
> fails. Guess why? Because it compares UUIDs as strings, and we format
> it as a DCE UUID instead of an ISO UUID. Sounds familiar no? :-)
Yeah :)
> So that’s where we are. Thoughts on how to address it?
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Making-a-GRUB-bootable-CD_002dROM
says:
>...grub-mkrescue
>This produces a file named grub.iso, which then can be burned into a CD (or a
>DVD), or written to a USB mass storage device.
>The root device will be set up appropriately on entering your grub.cfg
>configuration file, so you can refer to file names on the CD without needing
>to use an explicit device name. This makes it easier to produce rescue images
>that will work on both optical drives and USB mass storage devices.
So... just leave the entire "search" instruction off if it's created by
grub-mkrescue ? That's how one could interpret thir "root device" sentence...
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Danny Milosavljevic <=
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