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A while back I noticed that these days Linux (or at least Ubuntu) likes to find volumes by UUID instead of what /dev file it falls under. A UUID is not very memorable, so I have been known to edit fstab and menu.lst to use the traditional naming. But I am now a fan. The cause is my external disk again. I had Ubuntu install on my external disk. Mostly to get grub set up right and prove to myself that it was possible. Then I copied my entire / partition from the internal to the external disk. Oh, I went back and put the correct UUIDs in fstab to find the new /home and /boot partitions on the external disk. I also edited menu.lst UUIDs to point to the correct external / partition. It works! On my W2 (in testing before sending it off) the external USB disk appears as /dev/sda, but on the other machines I have booted with this disk the external disk is /dev/sdb. By using UUIDs I can find the partitions no matter what traditional name they land under. Yes, I have to use (hd0,1) or (hd1,1) in menu.lst for grub to find the kernel in the two cases, but after that it finds everything. So if any ornery old cusses out there hate this new fangled UUID thing, you might reconsider... -kb, the Kent who tries to keep his ornery old cussedness under control. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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