Re: disk labels mismatch
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:57:28AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > The problem was that grub "saw" that old installation on sdb
> > although sdb was _not_ mounted. For example, I deleted grub.cfg and
> > updated grub and all old installations from sdb would
> > reapear. Equally so during booting.
> > ...
> > I would say that this is something that should be
> > changed. Grub simply should not read unmounted disks.
>
> This is actually a feature that other people rely upon to work. For
> example people who dual boot multiple systems expect the update-grub
> script to search and automatically detect those other systems. If
> update-grub didn't locate those then these other people would have the
> opposite problem to yours. They would then no longer have an
> automatically provided boot option for those systems.
Do you want to say that they can boot from a disk which is not mounted?
Mladen.
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