On Tue 29 Mar 2011 at 14:33:34 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Let me be the devil's advocate: I imagine a > network/mirror/media/hardware problem during the install could prevent > os-prober from getting installed ;) It is good to know the Devil is still not omniscient and disappointing his advocate is lacking his usual imaginative skills :). One of my standard boot parameters for an install is 'recommends=false'.