How to prevent changing UUIDs on install?

Florian Diesch diesch at spamfence.net
Tue Dec 29 01:02:39 UTC 2009


Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

>> It seems I don't understand your problem. What exactly are you looking
>> for?
>>
>
> I often have multiple bootable installations in different partitions
> on a single computer. When the UUID changes, the other installations
> can no longer access the partition in which the new install lives, and
> Grub can no longer boot it.

I still don't understand why you don't want to change the UUID back to
the old value as that would allow the other systems and grub to access
the partition like before the new install without the need to touch them.


   Florian
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