Bug#1103935: os-prober: Hurd detection produces unusable grub.cfg fragment
ke 23.4.2025 klo 9.20 Martin-Éric Racine (martin-eric.racine@iki.fi) kirjoitti:
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> ke 23.4.2025 klo 9.13 Pascal Hambourg (pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org) kirjoitti:
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> > On 23/04/2025 at 06:08, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
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> > > In its current form, os-prober produces an unusable GRUB config segment when it finds a Hurd partition:
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> > > 1) It wants to boot a /boot/gnumach.gz file that doesn't exist. Mach kernel files include version numbers.
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> > > Once that has been manually fixed in grub.cfg to e.g. /boot/gnumach-1.8-486-up.gz, a second problem emerges:
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> > > 2) The config fragment passes the incorrect root device, which makes the Mach kernel fail to find its Hurd of services.
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> > os-prober does not generate GRUB menu entries. It just detects operating
> > systems, and GRUB helper script 30_os-prober uses its output to generate
> > menu entries. Is os-prober output for Hurd incorrect ?
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> Yes, as stated above, the output is incorrect.
More precisely, what 30_os-prober produces is incorrect. Looking
towards the end of the script is where the incorrect menu entry gets
generated. If you think that this makes it a bin:grub-common issue,
you're welcome to reassign the bug.
Martin-Éric
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