2 manpage: LILO-UUID-DISKID
4 title: lilo documentation
12 lilo-uuid-diskid - convert boot / root options to diskid and uuid in lilo.conf.
16 lilo-uuid-diskid [-h] [-v] [lilo.conf]
20 This script looks for the boot block device or boot partition and create the
21 right diskid or uuid as boot option. Then it looks for all root partitions
22 and create the right uuids as root options.
24 These conversions are necessary for use with newer kernel (>= 2.6.26) if it
25 use the libata module for parallel and serial ATA interfaces of block devices
26 (i. e. hard disks with IDE or SATA interface, usbsticks).
38 Print verbose messages.
44 Lines in the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf:
47 boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SV1604N_S01FJ10X999999
50 root = "UUID=/dev/disk/by-uuid/18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"
52 =head1 COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
54 Copyright (C) 2010 Joachim Wiedorn
56 This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
57 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
58 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
59 (at your option) any later version.
61 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
62 License version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
66 B<lilo-uuid-diskid> was written by Joachim Wiedorn.
68 This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian at joonet.de>
69 for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
73 B<lilo>(8), B<update-lilo>(8)