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. -- 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/20130219190907.ga21...@grad.hr
