Aria, I've had in our build stuff since the sles 12 days to put this in
/etc/default/grub
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
I think that might help your boot duplicate issues?
My brain cells that contained why I did that seem to have been reused for
another purpose though, so maybe it was something
Peter, thank you again for an amazing analysis of what is happening.
Your udev rules idea is an interesting one. I do use this to assign
consistent device names to LTO tape drives on my TSM/Spectrum Protect
server across boots. However, for this situation, I think it would be
overkill.
I think