Bug#243011: os-prober: installation report (beauty, but some issues)
On Saturday 10 April 2004 20:25, Joey Hess wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > I was very surprised that for /dev/hdb8 (hd1,7) (Unstable) the GRUB on
> > that partition is chainloaded. From the entries in menu.lst, I would have
> > expected Linux to be loaded directly (like it tries to do for Woody).
>
> I don't understand why the menu.lst would cause grub to do that, unless
> grub has some special behavior when told to set its root to a partiton
> containing another grub, or something like that. Very strange. Perhaps
> the grub maintainer can shed some light on this.
>
I tried this again and can't reproduce it. Probably an error on my part - got
lost between all the options in all my bootloaders :-(
If I try it now, the new GRUB boots directly into my Unstable system
(bypassing, as expected, the GRUB on that partition).
Sorry for the confusion.
FJP
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