How should 30_os-prober be working?

2014-06-13 Thread Gene Czarcinski
This deals with 30_os-prober and the os-prober package itself. In days of old, it was linux and initrd for linux systems (ignoring linuxefi and initrdefi). Fedora 21 is in the process of starting up and it brings in grub2-2.02-0.3 and os-prober-1.58-7. While these updates bring in improved s

Re: How should 30_os-prober be working?

2014-06-13 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On 13 Jun 2014 13:47, "Gene Czarcinski" wrote: > > This deals with 30_os-prober and the os-prober package itself. > > In days of old, it was linux and initrd for linux systems (ignoring linuxefi and initrdefi). Fedora 21 is in the process of starting up and it brings in grub2-2.02-0.3 and os-prob

multi-boot

2014-06-13 Thread Gene Czarcinski
In second 5.3 of the GNU GRUB 2.00 manual, there is a statement "Currently autogenerating config files for multi-boot environments depends on os-prober and has several shortcomings." I agree. Os-prober and the way it works with 30_os-prober is fragile at best and sometimes produces incorrect c