Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?
On 2010-07-12 19:41 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>>> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=grub-pc
>>
>> s/grub-pc/os-prober/
>>
>> Foreign operating systems are (supposed to be) detected by os-prober, so
>> if Fedora 13 does not show up, this is a bug in os-prober.
>
> Mmm, I don't even have that installed on my system (lenny) :-?
Which grub version do you have?
> Is it a required package for GRUB (legacy or 2) to detect the available
> systems?
I'm not sure if grub legacy even has an option to detect other systems,
but grub2 uses it in /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober. In Squeeze, grub-common
therefore recommends os-prober (but not in Lenny due to bug #476184¹).
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476184
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