Bug#563204: grub-pc: missing os-prober not reported

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009  John Verel <jverel at optonline.net> wrote:

> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.98~20091210-1
> Severity: important
>
> Script 30_os-prober tests for existence of os-prober at line 29.  If os-prober is not
> installed, then exit 0 at line 31.  My machine did not have os-prober installed.
> The result is that grub.conf had not reference to my Windows XP
> istallation.  I installed os-prober and re-ran update-grub2, picking up
> XP partition.
>
> Suggest grub-pc package require os-prober and/or report condition at
> exit noted above.
>
> (This may be received twice, as I forwarded an attached verison via regular mail, after text based reportbug failed with SMTP authentication error.)
>
> John

I strongly support this. I've lost a lof of time because of this bug :-(

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010  Ralph Ulrich <eulenreich at gmx.de> wrote:

[...]

> I would not have os-prober purged if I knew the entry:

I never purged os-prober intensionally, I'm not sure it was ever
installed.

> GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true in /etc/default/grub
> (I wish this for a self explaining commented out entry...)

I support this idea, too.

Best regards

JSB


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