[Bug 633907] Re: [wubi] uses old root=/dev/sd* format in grub2 configuration

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  [wubi] uses old root=/dev/sd* format in grub2 configuration

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  I installed Ubuntu 10.04 using wubi. It installed grub, which worked
  fine at first.

  Now, my system has a whole zoo of hard disk drives attached. For some
  strange reason device enumeration sometimes changes (which is quite
  unexplainable, but not a problem by itself; maybe this is caused by
  adding / removing USB drives, I don't know exactly). If this happens,
  Ubuntu obivously won't boot because it can't find the root disk when
  denoting it as root=/dev/sdb5 (for example) in the boot loader. This
  problem became especially obvious on my system, but will probably also
  affect other systems if, for example, a new hard drive is being added.

  Thus, I file the following wish: use root=UUID=<device_id> instead of
  root=/dev/sd*. I changed this by hand in my grub config, and now it
  always works fine. :]

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