Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2018-01-03 Thread Steve Keller
On 15 Dec 2017 at 13:42, Brian wrote: > Purge os-prober. Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Steve

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 20:33:29 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 15/12/2017 à 18:18, Brian a écrit : > > On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 17:53:57 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > > . > > > > > > ‘GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST’ > > > > > > Lis

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/12/2017 à 18:18, Brian a écrit : On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 17:53:57 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: . ‘GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST’ List of space-separated FS UUIDs of filesystems to be ignored from os-prober output. For efi chainload

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 17:53:57 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 15/12/2017 à 17:40, Brian a écrit : > > On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 16:31:54 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > > Le 15/12/2017 à 14:42, Richard Owlett a écrit : > > > > > > > > I have 2 similar problems which wouldn't be solved by d

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/12/2017 à 17:40, Brian a écrit : On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 16:31:54 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/12/2017 à 14:42, Richard Owlett a écrit : I have 2 similar problems which wouldn't be solved by disabling os-prober. The common characteristic is wishing to probe all operating systems r

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 16:31:54 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 15/12/2017 à 14:42, Richard Owlett a écrit : > > > > I have 2 similar problems which wouldn't be solved by disabling os-prober. > > > > The common characteristic is wishing to probe all operating systems > > residing on on a speci

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/12/2017 à 14:42, Richard Owlett a écrit : I have 2 similar problems which wouldn't be solved by disabling os-prober. The common characteristic is wishing to probe all operating systems residing on on a specific physical device. I multi-boot. There may be an OS on any number of mounted d

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/15/2017 06:43 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/12/2017 à 13:18, Steve Keller a écrit : When calling update-grub, it scans all devices for operating systems to put into the GRUB config. It even mounts all block devices to do the scan. I'd like to avoid this and let it scan only a number o

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/12/2017 à 13:18, Steve Keller a écrit : When calling update-grub, it scans all devices for operating systems to put into the GRUB config. It even mounts all block devices to do the scan. I'd like to avoid this and let it scan only a number of configured directories, in my case only /boot.

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 13:18:17 +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > When calling update-grub, it scans all devices for operating systems > to put into the GRUB config. It even mounts all block devices to do > the scan. I'd like to avoid this and let it scan only a number of > configured directories, in

update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Steve Keller
When calling update-grub, it scans all devices for operating systems to put into the GRUB config. It even mounts all block devices to do the scan. I'd like to avoid this and let it scan only a number of configured directories, in my case only /boot. Scanning all devices is annoying because * al