So is there some sort of conversion in the initrd converting from the UUId to something conventional like /dev/sdb2, and if so why doesn't just substituting /dev/sdb2 not work.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/19 Tony Nelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com">tonynelson@georgeanelson.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 09-09-19 07:57:03, James Allsopp wrote:<br>
> ... I don't really understand why it's using the UUID, ...<br>
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Because the GRUB stanza you copied to boot F11 says:<br>
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    root=UUID=7ba6f364-68c2-4dad-a54e-18c3464b0eb5<br>
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</div>That is, it says root is identified by its UUID.<br>
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