Ubuntu angers me with its UUID madness.

        I just upgraded my one box with a slightly newer kernel, to have it not
boot. Why was it not booting? Well, it decided to set all kernels in
my menu.lst to have a root partition of a really long UUID -- a UUID
string to an HD that was *NOT* in the machine. The new root one (on the
SATA drive I put in months ago) was clearly marked in the /etc/fstab,
with the old one commented out.
        Where do these Ubuntu upgrade utils read this old UUID string from? It
really bothers me that the 6.10 release would still be so damned
dangerous for upgrades -- upgrading from -10 to -11 kernel should not
involve me using a rescue CD, dropping to a shell, chrooting to the
mounted partition, and debugging why my distro can't find /.
Received on Wed May 30 20:18:47 2007