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On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 19:26, Blue Upsilon via Help-grub <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I use Ubuntu 18.04. > When I boot from GRUB command line, is there a way to determine what the > root mounting point will be, before booting? > > i.e., say I know that my partition that has Ubuntu is (hd0,gpt4). > so then I do: set root=(hd0,gpt4) > and then I happen to know that the correct root mounting point is > /dev/nvme0n1p4 > so then I know to do: linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/nvme0n1p4 > and then i do initrd /initrd.img and boot > > but like what if i don't know ahead of time that /dev/nvme0n1p4 is > what I need? > (this problem comes up when: say i'm booting from a backup external > disk, and i don't know whether it will be /dev/sdb2 or whatever.... etc..) > > Thanks, > Blue Upsilon > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub > _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
