Bug#603107: cdrom: grub does not add other OS to list
reassign 603107 installation-reports
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Reassigning to the installation-reports package for the d-i folks.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:30:52AM +0200, Mika Heinonen wrote:
>Package: cdrom
>Severity: important
>Tags: d-i
>
>-- System Information:
>Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
>Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
>i installed debian 6.0 beta1 kde amd64, and grub found during installation my 4 other OS
>however, grub wrote a grub.cfg in the partition on which i installed deb6, which only contained 2 lines of the deb6 booter
>
>when i ran update-grub, it found again all my 4 other OS, but now it actually wrote them into grub.cfg, and everything was fine: i could boot any OS
>
>so, the d-i should do what update-grub does, since it works like a charm.
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