Hi All, Maybe you're missing my desired outcome. Maybe I've been using the phrase "master disk" incorrectly. too. Maybe you're all working in a heavily networked environment, with many hard disks on-line to manage simultaneously -- while I'm just a standalone desktop user, running on a single HDD, and never hot swapping. I DON'T want to =uniquely= identify each disk (using UUID, serial number, nor label) during the boot-up process -- but definitely when running the backup script which uses rsync (and then by using the device name (?) e.g. /dev/sda /dev/sdb ). When my "master disk" (the only hard disk I use on a day to day basis, with all my OS, apps, and data on it) faults on me: I want to take a recently backed-up/mirrored disk, physically replace my "master disk" with it, and have it boot up (taking over the role of being my "master disk" from then on). This scheme has been working =perfectly= for me for at least 10 years now (including a fair few "restores" this way). I have no motivation to alter it in any way. I'm only asking LUV-list for assist in editing those boot-up scripts (below) because a couple things seem to have changed in Ubuntu since my current 10.4 version (and I'm using SATA drives for the first time). Maybe a better approach: Could anyone just point me to the specific forum where the Ubuntu boot process contributors focus their attention? Thanks very much, Carl Bayswater = = = = = = O R I G I N A L Q U E S T I O N = = = = = =
New system is Gigabyte MB, IntelCore i5 CPU, SATA HDD, dual booting on 64-bit Windoze plus just-released Trusty 64-bit Desktop.
Here's what I =would= do...
(1) Edit /etc/default/grub to remove the # at the start of line... #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"
(2) Edit /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib to comment out the 3 lines starting... if FS_UUID= (etc.) ... but that line doesn't exist in that file in the Trusty version of Ubuntu.
(3) Edit /etc/fstab and change very instance of UUID= (etc.) into the corresponding drive and partition e.g. /dev/sda2
(4) Edit /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume and change UUID=RESUME= (etc.) into the corresponding drive and partition e.g. /dev/sda2
(5) Run update-grub
(6) Then re-do all the above each time I do a kernel upgrade.