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bug #28600: probe -u returns uuid's of ntfs partition in small letters

Submitted by:  Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld <meierfra>
Submitted on:  Thu 14 Jan 2010 12:58:11 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Software Error
Status: FixedPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: 1.97Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 06 Nov 2010 08:55:04 PM UTC, comment #1:

Done

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Thu 14 Jan 2010 12:58:11 AM UTC, original submission:

The command "probe -u" always uses small letters in its output. But when applied to an ntfs partition it should use capital letters. Otherwise it cannot be used in the "root=UUID=..." argument of the "linux" command.

Example:

Wubi is installed on some ntfs partition in the file /ubuntu/disks/root.disk

The following sequence of commands from the Grub shell should boot Wubi:

set path=/ubuntu/disks/root/disk
search -f --set ${path}
probe -u --set=Host_UUID ${root}
loopback loop0 $path
set root=(loop0)
linux /vmlinuz root=UUID=${Host_UUID} loop=${path} ro
initrd initrd.img
boot

But it fails with an error message like

Alert /dev/disk/bu-uuid/735be1630b5aa140 does not exit.

This happens since "probe -u --set=Host_UUID ${root}" set $Host_UUID equal to "735be1630b5aa140" rather than "735BE1630B5AA40"

I'm sure only very few people will run into this bug. But it should be easy to fix.

Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld <meierfra>

 

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