On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:16:57PM -0700, Word Wizard wrote: > Here are the uncommented lines : > > default 0 > timeout 3 > color light-cyan/black blink-light-red/black > splashimage=/boot/grub/splashimages/debsplash.xpm.gz > > > title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic > uuid ca270e23-47e8-4f25-a295-4e0894fab4a7 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic > root=UUID=ca270e23-47e8-4f25-a295-4e0894fab4a7 ro splash verbose > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic > quiet
"UUID" here doesn't mean anything to GRUB. GRUB's "kernel" command treats everything after the first argument (the path to the kernel image itself) as kernel boot parameters, and passes them directly to the kernel. The "root" argument tells the kernel which file system to mount as the root file system. You can use device nodes, labels, or UUIDs for that purpose. If you're reasonably confident that your disks won't get moved around (e.g., your boot partitiong is on a PATA drive, which will always be the master drive on the first IDE bus), then you can specify the appropriate device node instead of UUID. For instance, "root=/dev/hda1". This is not a good bet for disks attached to some busses, like USB. If it's just the human-unreadability of UUIDs that you dislike, you might prefer to use file system labels. -- Paul _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
