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Anthony E. Caudel wrote: |
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> Michael Schmarck wrote: |
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>> · Anthony E. Caudel <tony.caudel@×××××××××.net>: |
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>>> I have noticed in some distros (namely Ubuntu) that the fstab uses |
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>>> UUID's rather than /dev references. Is this a better way? |
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>>> Does it eliminate the problem of /dev references changing when |
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>>> another drive, i.e., an external USB drive, is plugged in? The /dev |
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>>> references may change but the UUID's in fstab wouldn't, would they? |
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>> Correct. UUIDs are universally unique (as the name already "suggests" |
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>> *g*) |
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>> and thus, there cannot be a clash. |
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>> Michael Schmarck |
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> Any chance that GRUB will ever use these? I have a sata hd carrier |
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> and when I reboot with it plugged in, grub sees the disk order |
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> differently and gives me problems (I either have to get a grub command |
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> line and boot manually or use a Grub boot floppy). |
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As long as your BIOS is passing off control to the correct drive when |
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both are plugged in a boot, what about using GRUB's fallback feature? |
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Say your bootable partition is normally (hd0,0), but with your external |
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drive plugged in the proper partition becomes (hd1,0) instead. You can |
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duplicate your GRUB config with (hd1,0) for the root entry and specify |
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that as a fallback option. Then as long as GRUB gets control your |
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system is still bootable. |
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If the BIOS is trying to boot off the removable drive, I suppose you |
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could install GRUB on it too with a similar setup, but that obviously |
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doesn't scale well beyond a single computer with a known boot configuration. |
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Josh |
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