Bug#732696: Updated os-prober script for Haiku OS
Package: os-prober
Version: 1.79
Tags: patch
There's an updated version of the /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/83haiku
file now available for the os-prober package. Hope it can be added to
the latest Debian distribution!
I've gone through the previous work everyone here has done on making an
83haiku script and fixed it up to detect the current versions of Haiku
as well as all the older ones. Added some internal documentation too.
It's now got an official home on the Haiku source git repository:
https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/3rdparty/os_probe/83haiku
There's also a related README.md in the same directory, which I'll
reproduce here:
# os-probe for the Haiku Computer Operating System
This is the Linux "os-probes" file to detect Haiku OS and to
automatically add
it to the GRUB boot menu. Mostly relevant for x86 BIOS based computers.
Copy the 83haiku file to your Linux system in the os-probes subdirectory,
usually (in Fedora at least) it will be
/usr/libexec/os-probes/mounted/83haiku
You can find older 83haiku versions in the repository history, though the
latest should be able to detect older (pre-package manager) Haiku too.
Then regenerate the GRUB boot configuration file. This will happen
automatically the next time your kernel is updated. To do it manually,
for old school MBR BIOS boot computers, the command is
`grub2-mkconfig --output /boot/grub2/grub.cfg`
If it doesn't find the Haiku partitions, try manually mounting them in Linux
and rerun the grub command.
Computers using the newer UEFI boot system have a EFI/HAIKU/BOOTX64.EFI file
that you manually install to your EFI partition, and booting is done
differently, so you don't need this 83Haiku file for them. See
[UEFI Booting Haiku](https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/uefi_booting/) instead.
The original seems to have come from Debian and was written by François
Revol.
It's in the
[Debian os-prober
package](https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=os-prober).
There's also a big discussion about updating it in
[Debian Bug Report
#732696](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732696).
Latest version is now at
https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/3rdparty/os_probe
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