Bug#590897: (Extended) Haiku detection for os-prober
On 18 February 2011 16:38, François Revol <revol@free.fr> wrote:
> The script itself seems ok but I didn't test it yet.
>
> It seems to me os-prober only runs the mounted/ probes that are executable, and the os-probes/mounted/x86/83haiku script is not executable in the archive at:
> ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/os-prober/os-prober_1.43.tar.gz
> Therefore I highly doubt it is run at all.
> I also checked in the .deb, it's not executable either :
> -rw-r--r-- 0 root root 815 18 fév 06:02 ./usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/83haiku
That's strange, it was executable when I attached it to my email.
> Beside, even though BeOS itself is proprietary and commercially dead, some people still have it on their machine, so it would still be useful to have it supported too.
Yes, I intend to make a similar script for BeOS; but I have to install
it first on my computer.
I also noticed a small error in the 83haiku script: on line 23, "$2"
should be "$mpoint"
- Jeroen
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