Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-11-02 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/10/2024 21:56, David Wright wrote: On Sat 26 Oct 2024 at 20:55:11 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: A Web search found mention of grub command nativedisk which I added. I don't know anything about nativedisk or the distinctions between various types of driver. [...] nativedisk se

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-11-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 23:10:22 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 28 Oct 2024 at 07:08:12 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 22:42:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > type > > > set -x > > > before you run os-prober and > > > set +x > > > afterwards, and track what it

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 28 Oct 2024 at 07:08:12 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 22:42:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > type > > set -x > > before you run os-prober and > > set +x > > afterwards, and track what it does. > > os-prober is a script, so that won't work as written. You'd ei

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-31 Thread David Wright
On Mon 28 Oct 2024 at 09:07:42 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: David Wright > Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:42:15 -0500 > > Well, it could be because Void apparently isn't a glibc OS. > > Thanks. Haven't thought about that. > > > You could check /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-28 Thread peter
From: David Wright Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:42:15 -0500 > Well, it could be because Void apparently isn't a glibc OS. Thanks. Haven't thought about that. > You could check /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro > to see whether the first test would succeed. Or a lazy way: > type >

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 22:42:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: > type > set -x > before you run os-prober and > set +x > afterwards, and track what it does. os-prober is a script, so that won't work as written. You'd either need to modify os-prober (change the second line from "set -e" to "set -

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Oct 2024 at 11:26:12 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > A search of "os-prober security" finds several pages. os-prober is > disabled by default in Archlinux and other respected distributions. > > For interest, I enabled os-prober again in /etc/default/grub and ran > grub-install /de

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-27 Thread peter
From: David Wright Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:56:45 -0500 > That earlier installation is presumably the bookworm that > wrote (hd0,gpt2)/boot/grub/grub.cfg with the Grub deb12u1, > which I pointed out in my first post, but wasn't confirmed > by your follow-up. Yes, the multiple details hav

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-27 Thread David Wright
On Sat 26 Oct 2024 at 20:55:11 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Tim & all, > > From: Tim Woodall > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:35:50 +0100 (BST) > > It's possibly not reading the grub.cfg you think it is reading. I've > > hit this problem before - IIRC grub uses the grub.cfg from the *f

[solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

2024-10-26 Thread peter
Tim & all, From: Tim Woodall Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:35:50 +0100 (BST) > It's possibly not reading the grub.cfg you think it is reading. I've > hit this problem before - IIRC grub uses the grub.cfg from the *first* > place it finds one - this can even be a partition (or in my case a LV