Re: How to get rid of an entry in grub?
On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 09:23:40 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
> Well, too late on "before you try that," but I had looked at the
> partition. None of those files existed on that drive (or partition).
>
> I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as
> /backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all
> configured; I've just been doing an rsync to the drive). Since I was
> backing up *everything*, I suppose there's a possibility that it saw
> /backup/boot/[...] and acted on it, thought that seems an odd behavior
os-prober mounts the partition. Since you backed up everything surely it
will see /boot, /boot/grub /etc etc. In an earlier mail you had
> Found Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.7) on /dev/sdb1
The only way for that line to be generated is for an /etc/debian_version
file to be found on the partition. Please see
/usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro
> to me. I'm running the rsync again right now; when it completes I'll
> run update-grub again and see if it mysteriously adds the extra entry
> again. Then we'll know for sure.
Why would it be mysterious?
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