On 28 June 2010 18:02, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 08:00:27PM +0100, Piscium wrote:
>> It would be good also to boot Fedora partitions that lack Grub. In
>> order to do that (with initrd) I have modified 90fallback, a file from
>> os-prober v. 1.38. I am attaching the original file and a patch file.
>> My changes were few: I added one line, changed another and added one
>> comment line.
>
> I applied this to os-prober's revision control system today.  Thanks!

Thanks.

>> I am not sure where upstream for os-prober is. I downloaded 1.38 from
>> Debian Sid. So if this is not the right mailing list to propose
>> changes to os-prober, please let me know where I should go.
>
> os-prober is maintained as part of the debian-installer project.  Please
> file bugs about it on the os-prober package in Debian.

I was wondering, what is the status of os-prober vis–à–vis grub2? Is
it a required package or optional package? Is it considered part of
grub2 or is it an external package?

>
>> Note that there have been other requests for changes to this same
>> file. For example, see this:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/420900
>
> I've arranged for that bug to be closed once this change reaches Ubuntu.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Colin Watson                                       [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]
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