Bug#545154: [Fwd: Re: Bug#545154: grub-pc: on upgrade other OS are not carried over, and os-prober does not work]
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> Von: Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
> An: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
> Betreff: Re: Bug#545154: grub-pc: on upgrade other OS are not carried
> over, and os-prober does not work
> Datum: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:53:15 +0200
>
> Am Samstag, den 05.09.2009, 14:49 +0200 schrieb Norbert Preining:
> > reassign 545154 grub-pc
> > retitle 545154 grub-pc should depend or at least recommend os-prober
> > thanks
> >
> > On Sa, 05 Sep 2009, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > > That's a bug in os-prober then. We just call it and make the output of
> > > it to a menu entry for grub2.
> >
> > And via that remark I only learned of the existence of os-prober.
> > That is a bug in grub-pc, not in os-prober, I did not have it installed.
> > Installing it renders the generated grub.cfg more reasonable.
> >
> > The problem is that upgrading grub-legacy to grub-pc breaks
> > existing configuration as long as you not at least recommend os-prober.
> >
>
> Well grub-common Suggests it.
> We don't use Recommend: because of #476184
> We have a bug about this 491872 (well actually 3 it's merged with 2
> others) titled grub-pc: dual boot needs OS-prober
>
>
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Felix Zielcke
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