ubuntu karmic grub error: "no such device" uuid/search nonsense

After cloning my recent karmic koala (9.10) install to another machine, I was annoyed that it wouldn't boot. It said:

error: no such device: ....

  Failed to boot default entries.

Karmic now locates disk by UUID instead of the more traditional /dev/sda notation, which sucks when you want to clone a disk. But it's easy enough to fix.

To get it to boot once, use "e" from the grub menu to edit the command line. Remove the entire line that says:

search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ...

Then change the root= option in the next line to use /dev/sda1 instead of mounting by UUID:

/libux/boot/vmlinuz-... root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash

Then hit control-x to boot with those settings.

To fix it for good once the system boots, sudo gedit /etc/default/grub and uncomment this line:

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

Next, sudo gedit /etc/fstab and replace the UUID=... with /dev/sda1 for the / partition and /dev/sda5 for the swap partition (assuming you had ubuntu use the whole disk during install).

Finally, sudo gedit /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib and find this line (line 174 for me):

    echo "search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set ${fs_uuid}"

Change it to:

    echo ""

Finally, sudo update-grub2 to write the changes to disk. Then cross your fingers and reboot.