On 2010-07-12 20:21 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:03:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-07-12 19:41 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> >>>> Foreign operating systems are (supposed to be) detected by os-prober, >>>> so if Fedora 13 does not show up, this is a bug in os-prober. >>> >>> Mmm, I don't even have that installed on my system (lenny) :-? >> >> Which grub version do you have? > > GRUB Legacy. > >>> Is it a required package for GRUB (legacy or 2) to detect the available >>> systems? >> >> I'm not sure if grub legacy even has an option to detect other systems, > > Debian installer auto-detected my other linux OS (openSUSE 10.3) and > added to "/boot/grub/menu.lst", I had to do nothing :-?
Yes, but any system that you install _after_ Debian will not automagically show up in the menu. You'll probably have to add it by hand then. >> but grub2 uses it in /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober. > > Which seems to be a script/routine that first checks for the availability > of "os-prober". So it makes sense to me that if anyone wanted to use > the"update-grub" and its auto-OS-detecting feature, this package should > be needed/installed. Exactly. >> In Squeeze, grub-common therefore recommends os-prober (but not in >> Lenny due to bug #476184¹). > > More than "recommended" it should be "required", provided that "update- > grub" will lack some features if not present :-? No, there are people like yours truly who use Debian as their sole operating system. Others might use some other bootloader in the MBR and chainload grub, they probably don't need os-prober either. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbk4pm77....@turtle.gmx.de
