Looking at $ apt-cache policy grub-legacy-doc Installed: 0.97-41 one finds no mention of UUID.
man lilo.conf mentions UUID, so lilo must be more advanced. Or maybe grub disposes of such worries. (Even so, the manual should still mention UUID, etc.) One cannot tell, as the manual is quite complicated. I think you need a quick start section. E.g., older user me has this lilo.conf, menu-title=jidanni1 prompt read-only compact lba32 boot=/dev/hdb root="UUID=0eacb674-cb86-xxxx-yyyy-4debb3cd9a61" <--I masked some numbers here, for fear of losing my "mojo" here on the net, if indeed there is some secret involved. image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686 label=2.6.25-2-686 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-686 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 label=2.6.24-1-686 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686 and knows how to say # lilo at the root prompt. What would the equivalent grub file and step be? You see in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00411.html there is talk of how one might want to move to grub. However, as there is no quick start guide, only a formidable manual, it looks like maybe I just might keep using lilo and never know the difference anyway... no use in giving gramps a whole new set of false teeth, he won't be using them for long anyway, etc. P.S., there is a raw ^G in /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst. Maybe give other ways of writing it too. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
