Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 11:28:53 -0700, David Guntner wrote:
>
>> Well, I guess that's the default configuration. *I* didn't tell it
>> anything. :-) Remember, I started this with, "I've used lilo all my
>
> Of course you did! Did someone else issue the command 'update-grub'?
> What you may mean is that you did not realise the consequences.
Apparently, we have different definitions of "someone telling something
to do a specific thing." My definition of "I told it to do a specific
something" involves my actually editing a config file somewhere, to
define what I want it to do. Running the program simple tells it to do
what it's supposed to do, but *I* did not define that action unless I
made the afore-mentioned change.
Also, 99% of the time, the only time update-grub gets run is when an
"aptitude safe-upgrade" results in a kernel update of some kind, most of
the time it's aptitude telling it to run (yes, I know I'm running
aptitude :-) ).
>> life and know it backwards and forwards and sideways and so on, and now
>> I'm stuck with grub which I don't understand at all." lol
>
> I do remember it. I ignored it because it is perenial complaint of
> GRUB-challenged users
Guilty as charged. :-) I'll eventually get a handle on it and figure it
out, just like I had to do with lilo a long time ago.
>> So then, the question becomes: Is there a configuration option
>> somewhere that I can use to tell this os-prober thing to *not* probe
>> down a particular directory? I've seen references to being able to just
>
> You are still asking the wrong question. Look at what os-prober does.
> Does it probe directories?
Apparently not (which again runs counter to the way I've been used to
thinking, so that'll be another thing I've got to get used to <grin>).
So knowing how to get it to avoid that particular partition when probing
would be useful. I don't know if there's a better way of doing that
than the way suggested by Siard, but it works some I'm happy for now. :-)
Thanks for all the replies - I do appreciate them.
--Dave
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