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On Wed, Apr 29, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

> This info is already in grub.cfg. Why does grub.cfg need help to find disk with
> distro if it already contains a refence to it?

How does the info which disk inside the guest to use initially get into
grub.cfg?  The distro can certainly not know that in advance.  This is
like setting the boot-device, which is up to the host admin, not grub or
the distro.

Olaf