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This fixes the UUID issue on Racksapce Cloud servers with Ubuntu 12.04 or any Ubuntu servers after upgrading the GRUB to GRUB2 and chose to install the maintainer version of menu.lst
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fixUUID.sh
#!/bin/sh
file="/mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst"
back="/mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst~"
word="UUID"
mount -o rw /dev/xvdb1 /mnt
if [ -x "$file" ]; then
echo "File $file does not exist."
exit 1
fi
sed -e "s/=UUID//g" -i $file
sed -e "s/=UUID//g" -i $back
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