Re: grub2 windows 7 chainloader root=UUI D‏

[Greg White]

> When you assign a value to the root variable, it can only be a direct
> partition specification. To specify a partition indirectly via UUID or
> a given label, use the search command like
> search --no-floppy --set --fs-uuid 4f7f6c976c7ecb44
> search --no-floppy --set --label somenicename

menuentry "Windows 7" {
  search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 4396-78d9
  chainloader /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi 
}

works perfectly.  Thank you for the help.
Greg