[Bug 1548120] Re: [xenial][initramfs-tools] support uppercase and lowercase uuids

[Manoj Iyer]

With the attached patch I was able to boot with root=PARUUID=<PARUUID>

$ cat /proc/cmdline 
BOOT_IMAGE=/EFI/BOOT/vmlinuz-4.3.0-8-generic boot=local earlycon=pl011,0x3ced1000 console=ttyAMA1 debug user_debug=31 loglevel=9 uefi_debug e1000e.IntMode=1 pci=pcie_bus_safe acpi=force cpuidle.off=1 usb-storage.delay_use=1 rootwait rw root=PARTUUID=81780AD9-068C-4A80-A795-56856973B8F9 rootfstype=ext4


** Patch added: "[V2] Patch to support uppercase and lowercase uuids"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1548120/+attachment/4578505/+files/0001-Add-support-for-uppercase-and-lowercase-uuids.patch

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Title:
  [xenial][initramfs-tools] support uppercase and lowercase uuids

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Initramfs tools does not support uppercase UUIDs. Initramfs-tools
  script/functions uses blkid to determine the device name from
  UUID/PARTUUID but if either of those are in uppercase blkid fails to
  return the name.

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