Package: os-prober Version: 1.63 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
when detecting kernels on a linux system without grub/lilo, the 90fallback script is used, which looks for kernel/image files in a few well-known locations using 'ls'. This makes the output least-recent-first ordered, causing grub to use the oldest kernel as default, making it necessary to use a submenu to boot the most recent one. Attaching a patch reversing the ordering. Regards, WG -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- linux-boot-probes/mounted/common/90fallback 2011-02-10 03:00:20.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-boot-probes/mounted/common/90fallback.new 2014-03-17 00:56:49.001460861 +0100 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ else kernbootpart="$partition" fi - for kernfile in $(eval ls "$mpoint$kernpat" 2>/dev/null); do + for kernfile in $(eval ls -r "$mpoint$kernpat" 2>/dev/null); do kernbasefile=$(echo "$kernfile" | sed "s!^$mpoint!!") if [ -f "$kernfile" ] && [ ! -L "$kernfile" ]; then initrdname=$(echo "$kernfile" | sed "s/vmlinu[zx]/initrd\*/")
