LILO-UUID-DISKID(8)

📦 version 24.2, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu jammy

💖 NAME 💖

lilo-uuid-diskid — bestie, it converts your boot / root options into diskid and uuid form inside lilo.conf. no cap, that's the whole job. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lilo-uuid-diskid [-h] [-v] [lilo.conf]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe. This script goes looking for your boot block device or your boot partition, and it whips up the right diskid or uuid to drop in as the boot option. 🎀

then — and this is the part that eats — it hunts down all your root partitions and generates the correct uuids for them, setting each one as a root option. 💅

why do we even need this, you ask? because these conversions are necessary for use with newer kernels (that's >= 2.6.26) if the kernel uses the libata module for the parallel and serial ATA interfaces of block devices — iykyk, that means hard disks with an IDE or SATA interface, and also usbsticks. 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h — prints a brief help message. short, sweet, informative. 🙈
  • -v — prints verbose messages, so you can watch it do its little thing. 💜

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

here's what the lines in the config file /etc/lilo.conf are giving: 🔥

#boot = /dev/sda
boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SV1604N_S01FJ10X999999

#root = /dev/sda1
root = "UUID=18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44"

like, look at that glow-up. the commented-out originals are right there, and the new hotness is doing main character energy. ⭐

Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Joachim Wiedorn

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 💖

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

lilo-uuid-diskid was written by Joachim Wiedorn.

This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <joodevel at joonet.de>. 🫶

💀 SEE ALSO 💀

lilo(8), update-lilo(8), liloconfig(8)

and that's the whole page, bestie — lilo documentation, version 24.2, dated 2015-11-22. slay, go convert some diskids. 💅✨

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