On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 13:52 +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > Am 02.12.21 um 09:26 schrieb Joe: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:44:47 +0100 > > Christian Britz <cbr...@t-online.de> wrote: > > > > > Joe wrote: > > > > measure. If grub is installed correctly, both OSes should appear on > > > > its menu. > > > > > > IIRC, you have to install package os-prober to achieve that. > > > > > > > Is that how the installer behaves now? It really doesn't care whether > > there are other OSes installed already? > > To be honest, I don't know exactly what the installer does, if it finds > another OS.
How would it do that? Detecting other OS's is what the os-prober package is for. On my machines, os-prober is installed and I always install to an empty disks and no other disk present apart from the Debian installer on a USB stick. > Maybe it installs os-prober automatically then. > In my case, I installed Windows later, and I am almost sure that I had > to install os-prober manually. The grub-common package Recommends os-prober, so I would have thought it would be installed automatically by the installer, unless you've taken special measures to tell it not to install recommended packages. -- Tixy
