On Du, 12 mai 13, 01:49:14, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > Can someone who knows what they're talking about please answer this > question. (And someone who knows not to top-post). > running update-grub will overwrite any changes I make to grub's configs. If you mean /boot/grub/grub.cfg then yes. > It *should* detect any other systems and automatically add them. No, grub is just a bootloader. The program responsible for the detection is os-prober, which hooks itself in grub's framework for generating grub.cfg (see /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober). > It's detecting the other system and not adding it. I can not guess what happens here, but I would try some basic troubleshooting steps: - make sure /boot/grub/grub.cfg is changeable (/boot is mounted rw, etc.) - make sure os-prober is installed correctly (especially its hook in /etc/grub.d/), a purge-install might fix it - other things I haven't thought of > I don't need to be told how to make things executable. > I need to understand why grub isn't adding the other system. > What happened to this list? > Is it now entirely manned by n00bs? > Edit grub configs and then run update-grub? Really? You could have at least shown us the output of an update-grub run... Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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