[gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-07-02, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:57:26 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> IOW, it appears that the "blkid" program is either just making stuff
>> up or its the filesystem UUID rather than the partition UUID. I
>> suspect the latter, since I notice that blkid doesn't print a UUID for
>> paritions that don't have filesystems.
>
> UUIDs are for filesystems, PARTUUIDs ae for partitions - blkid prints
> both, but only if both are present, which requires a GPT partition table.

I found some references to blkid at one time generating PARTUUID
values for MBR partitions, but that feature got removed.

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