Re: Grub 1.5 error after update
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 05:58:51PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote:
> > Frank wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:09 +0200
> >> "thveillon.debian" <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Obviously grub-pc is not ready for primetime yet. On the update it
> >>> did on my machine, it failed to pick up the Ubuntu installation on another
> >>> partition. How did it get migrated to Squeeze ?
> >>>
> >> The package "os-prober" is taking care of other OS detection, it's
> >> "recommended" but not automatically installed.
> >
> > Does that mean maintainers assume you only have one installation ?
>
> I can't read their minds, but it sure seems that installing os-prober as
> a dependency would do no harm to "single-booting" systems, and would
> save some trouble to "multi-booting" users. Maybe there's already a
> "whishlist" bug opened about it ?
>
The default behavior of aptitude and apt-get these days at least in sid
and testing is to install Recommends automatically, so the user must
have made a concious choice not to install os-prober or not to install
Recommends packages by default.
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Med venlig hilsen / Best regards,
Ole Toft Jensen
Ingemannsvej 33 ole@24gold.dk
9490 Pandrup
Denmark
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