How to prevent changing UUIDs on install?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 09:58:10 UTC 2009


> As for grub, even if UUID does not change, you've to update each time
> when there are kernel updates in other OS as well; otherwise, it'll boot
> up using the older kernel. For grub-legacy, 'update-grub'; for grub2,
> 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' and any UUID change is factored
> into it as well. So I think keeping UUID the same has minimal
> advantages. But that's for you to call.
>

‎That is one of the reasons why I don't want to change the UUID
manually or update grub by hand: so that kernel changes will be
automatically written to grub.


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