Bug#534644: os-prober: linux-boot-prober does not detect a separate boot partition

[Olivier_G <olivier0101@altern.org>]

Package: os-prober
Version: 1.35
Severity: normal

I am running Debian as my main OS on /dev/hda3
However I am running CentOS on /dev/hda8 with a separate boot partition on /dev/hda1

Running
os-prober
returns
/dev/hda8:CentOS release 5.3 (Final):RedHat:linux

and running
linux-boot-prober /dev/hda8
returns nothing (void)

whereas running 
linux-boot-prober /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1:/dev/hda1::/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5::root=/dev/hda1
/dev/hda1:/dev/hda1::/vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5::root=/dev/hda1
/dev/hda1:/dev/hda1::/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686:/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686:root=/dev/hda1

As a consequence, update-grub does not add any line for CentOS in /boot/grub.conf

Cheers

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

os-prober recommends no packages.

os-prober suggests no packages.

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