Your bug report indicates that you are using the grub1 package, which has not been supported for new installs since before 14.04. Please upgrade to grub2 by installing the grub-pc package, and if you still experience problems, file a bug against that package.
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1565226 Title: update-grub overenthusiastically places root=UUID=XXX (xenial) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/1565226/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs