Does deleting a partition below Ubuntu mess up grub?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:45:21AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:27:53PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> >> UUIDs only helps when *Linux* mounts file systems -- it does nothing
> >> for grub.
> >
> > This is quite untrue.  GRUB 2 uses UUIDs to find the file systems it
> > needs; indeed this was one of the primary reasons we switched from GRUB
> > Legacy to GRUB 2 some years ago.
> 
> Wasn't there an Ubuntu-only patch for grub1 to understand UUIDs?

There was, true, but if memory serves (it's been a long time) it was a
bit limited and not really very robust in practice.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]