On ma, 2006-09-25 at 17:00 +0000, Jim Bray wrote: > 1) If I don't want to use UUIDs, but prefer labels or the time-honored > way, do I need to drop Ubuntu in favor of Debian or is there still a > choice in the matter?
You can change it back of course :) > 2) Kernel doesn't boot when update-grub has mangled my kopts. > "No Root", etcetc. Apparently can't find it. That's why I didn't close the bug ;) You hit a bug in the conversion routine. > I've been searching on UUID and so forth to try to find some > convincing reason why I would want to use UUID instead of the other > alternatives, but without much success. Using /dev entries is error-prone, booting with or without USB sticks plugged in can reorder devices. Same goes for docking stations and even race conditions in the loading of modules can reorder drives. -- Dennis K. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. -- edgy update-grub destroys kopt https://launchpad.net/bugs/62195 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
