On 5/25/23, Andrea Borgia <and...@borgia.bo.it> wrote: >> updates cause my edits to be overwritten... that sucks >> >> > Ah, ok, I wasn't seeing ghosts, then!
Last time you all chatted this up, I went in and poked around. Now that GRUB is FINALLY working again, it's only registering one operating system. That's after changing GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER to false here, too. We do have the /etc/grub.d/40_custom and friends route, but my brain hasn't been in a place to make use of that helpful feature again. My old copies that would short track remembering how to do that are trapped on a hard drive. It suffered a hopefully correctable hibernation fail k/t Microsoft on a newly arrived secondhand desktop. In the meantime of fixing that, LILO's config keeps coming back to mind to further confuse the issue. Although.. glass half full on LILO is that it was my first experience with changing the appearance of a bootloader's welcoming screen. Just yesterday I almost started poking around in GRUB's [dependencies] to attempt altering its appearance, too. GRUB's latest update reminded that it was a to-do item to-attempt. Today is the first time I comprehended this part: "[R]unning os-prober can cause damage to those guest (e.g. LVM) OSes as it mounts filesystems to look for things." Now I understand why that change occurred. I've noticed blips indicating other programs were triggering partitions to mount but never thought about the possibility of that action inflicting damage. Good to know for programs beyond GRUB.... Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
