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On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 12:38:40AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 18:22:54 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: |
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> > > grub-mkconfig doesn't care about the fstab of the running distro |
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> > > since it scans your drives for all operating systems it can boot. |
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> > Sorry if I missed something in this tome, but I was under the |
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> > impression that a seperate utility, os-prober (or something similar), |
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> > was needed to scan outside of the current partition. Some distros do |
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> > not include this type of utility by default, but it has been 3 years |
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> > since I installed my Gentoo and I just don't remember. Is this |
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> > off-topic? |
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> os-prober scans for Windows and other non-Linux installations. |
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That's true, but it seems to imply it does not scan for Linux, which is not true |
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to my understanding. |
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os-prober is just a shell script, but a little dense for me to make conclusions |
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of; maybe you can make sense of it, if you have it. However, the Ubuntu people |
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say this: |
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"30_os-prober This script uses os-prober to search for Linux and other operating |
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systems and places the results in the GRUB 2 menu. |
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1. The file's sections include options for Windows, Linux, OSX, and Hurd." |
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The full quote is here: |
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup |
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My point was just to see if this information was helpful to the OP. Like I |
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said, I kind-of lost track of this thread. If it's not helpful, that's fine. |
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