On 10/7/23 09:29, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Mr M:
Thanks for the exposition . . . I guess I'm hitting the "perfect storm" . . . ??? To try to boot TW I felt compelled to use my SuperGrub2 disk, but, as mentioned somewhere, this "disordered grub" thing was happening before I plugged in that usb drive.
I have all SATA internal drives, two HDD, and two SSD . . . none of that has changed recently.
@Michael, et al: I did check my /etc/default/grub file and the "UUID=true" line is commented out in Leap . . . the /grub.cfg file is quite large, it does seem to show uuid data for each OS . . . quite a large file.
One of my systems has 4 SATA drives configured as RAID 5 and one SSD attached to port 2 of the motherboard. With drive names in fstab and grub config, sometime that SSD was attaching as /dev/sdb, and sometimes as /dev/sda, depending whether the first rotating rust drive responded before or after the SSD. After I switched to UUID identification, everything is fine. I hate those long labels, but it just works! :) Larry