Since I upgraded to Wheezy, I wanted to have grub understand my label.
State of the art
I finally find my cheat sheet for the old Lenny-to-Squeez upgrade and notice that
I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst like this :
- #kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
+ #kopt=root=LABEL=my_label ro
So I have to hack grub2 a little bit. But the only examples I found on the web was dirty (in my opinion) and hard-coded.
Did you find something ?
One not-so-dirty
hack was useful to help me understand how grub2 generate the /boot/grub/grub.cfg I didn't want
to edit myself (neither add a 40_custom entry).
Of course, thanks to
the arch doc
and these good researchers too.
Do you propose something new ?
You can see the patch
I try today in order to generate proper grub.cfg.
I didn't find the time (for the moment) to try a hard reboot, but it seems to work.
(You can see I created 2 other /etc/grub.d/-files because I don't have a test machine, and
didn't take the time to setup a test VM)
Just edit /etc/default/grub and use the existant variable like this :
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=label
And it works ! The legacy behaviour seems to be untouched, so I now have to try it in real. And maybe suggest it to grub maintainer.