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bug #25794: Missing functionality for hiding partitions and more

Submitter:  Karsten <lsmod>
Submitted:  Sun 08 Mar 2009 09:53:40 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Disk & Partition Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Action Request
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Release:  >0.97 Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Mon 06 Apr 2009 10:05:38 AM UTC, comment #1: 

svn rev 2068 did add a parttool command which you can use to hide partitions.

To the UUIDs: Well you don't have to use them, grub-mkconfig/update-grub generates always `set root="(hdx,y)"' along with the `search --fs-uuid' line.
And for the kernel root= option you can set `GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true' in /etc/default/grub and then rerun update-grub/grub-mkconfig.

Felix Zielcke <fzielcke>
Group Member
Sun 08 Mar 2009 09:53:40 PM UTC, original submission:  

I am convinced from using grub, but in versions after V 0.97 i lost my faith in grub.

1. I miss the old functionality of hiding partitions
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505905

2. I have problems with the new syntax.
Especially using this UUID's is very ugly and makes grub very difficult to transport from one system to another.
It is also a big problem if a system will not boot.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518791

There is also nearly no documentation of the newer versions of grub. :-(

I hope this problem can be solved, otherwise the problems will grow (specially in debian) and grub is not the best solution as boot-manager anymore.

Karsten <lsmod>

 

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