[Bug 554307] Re: linux-boot-prober yields wrong uuid for kernel root parameter

[My name]

Same thing with me in 14.04. This is a pretty basic thing to be broken
for so long. Suggestions for work-arounds would be nice, since it
doesn't look fixing it is imminent.

Personally, I've tried a 2 grub rescue utilities, one from within one of
the partitions that will boot, and another from CD. Neither worked. I'm
downloading 2 more to burn optical disks with, but I'm not hopeful.

So maybe:

-Edit grub.cfg by hand, or is there a better file to edit?
-Roll back to legacy, which was pretty darn stable and foolproof?
-Switch LILO?
-Switch to some exotic loader (isn't there a "Burg"?)?

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Title:
  linux-boot-prober yields wrong uuid for kernel root parameter

Status in os-prober package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: os-prober

  My Partitions:
  sda5 swap
  sda6 lucid
  sda7 karmic

  linux-boot-prober doesn't take the root partition as kernel root
  paraameter for my karmic installation.

  matthias at netbook:/boot/grub$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
  insgesamt 0
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-04-02 23:08 199233d9-7174-445d-81df-eb9c95af871f -> ../../sda7
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-04-02 23:08 1E4F-1E00 -> ../../sda2
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-04-02 23:08 523cd06e-f460-4c88-b1e9-5382df4e5d37 -> ../../sda6
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-04-02 23:08 82A8C040A8C03507 -> ../../sda1
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-04-02 23:08 837c2ad3-a209-4668-b864-a79320c5094b -> ../../sda5

  matthias at netbook:/boot/grub$ linux-boot-prober /dev/disk/by-uuid/199233d9-7174-445d-81df-eb9c95af871f
  unshare failed: Operation not permitted
  /dev/disk/by-uuid/199233d9-7174-445d-81df-eb9c95af871f:/dev/disk/by-uuid/199233d9-7174-445d-81df-eb9c95af871f:Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-16-generic:/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-16-generic:/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic:root=UUID=523cd06e-f460-4c88-b1e9-5382df4e5d37 ro quiet splash
  ...

  I suspect that when I try to boot my karmic, it boots the karmic
  kernel with lucid userland -> nothing works.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: os-prober 1.36
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Apr  3 01:15:03 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: os-prober

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