On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:03:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-07-12 19:41 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >>> 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?
GRUB Legacy. >> 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, Debian installer auto-detected my other linux OS (openSUSE 10.3) and added to "/boot/grub/menu.lst", I had to do nothing :-? > but grub2 uses it in /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober. Which seems to be a script/routine that first checks for the availability of "os-prober". So it makes sense to me that if anyone wanted to use the"update-grub" and its auto-OS-detecting feature, this package should be needed/installed. > In Squeeze, grub-common therefore recommends os-prober (but not in > Lenny due to bug #476184¹). More than "recommended" it should be "required", provided that "update- grub" will lack some features if not present :-? > ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476184 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.07.12.18.21...@gmail.com
