Bug#461442: please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Robert Millan schrieb: You could try with qemu. Update: I tried with Knoppix on a computer that has Debian sid and Windows XP installed. The attached script did it's job well - of course except for the part when it has to convert Linux device names to GRUB drives (see #462218). Support for HU

Bug#461442: please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:39:14AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Otavio Salvador schrieb: > >os-prober is developed inside Debian Installer team. > > > >I think it's two different but reports and then it would be nice to > >report a specific bug (maybe with a proposed patch) for os-prober to > >

Bug#461442: please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Otavio Salvador schrieb: os-prober is developed inside Debian Installer team. I think it's two different but reports and then it would be nice to report a specific bug (maybe with a proposed patch) for os-prober to provide what you'd need and then we can push it. I believe the issue is even ea

Bug#461442: please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-24 Thread Otavio Salvador
Fabian Greffrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the moment there is still one problem left: os-prober returns the > partition on which it finds the OS as a system device name, > e.g. /dev/hda2. At the moment, GRUB does not provide an (easy) way to > translate these into GRUB drives, e.g. (hd0,1)

Bug#461442: please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
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Bug#461442: please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Dear GRUB-developers, I recently had a discussion with the GRUB-maintainers in Debian if it will be possible to add other (maybe proprietary, preinstalled) OSes to the GRUB boot menu when update-grub is run [1]. This happens automatically when Debian is installed (via the Debian-Installer) usi