Bug#1040455: update-grub: when generating new grub.cfg entries from 40_custom not show as output on screen

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 10:03:23AM +0200, mh wrote:
>Package: grub-pc
>Version: 2.06-14
>Severity: important
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>* What led up to the situation?
>executing "update-grub" (os-prober disabled!)
>
>* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>     ineffective)?
>"update-grub" as root (os-prober disabled!)
>
>* What was the outcome of this action?
>On screen (xterm) I saw all the installed kernels of system grub was
>  running from. In addition all bootable siduction-live.iso files were
>  listed and appended to the list (due to a script in
>  /etc/grub.d/60_fll-fromiso). The entries defined in
>  /etc/grub.d/40_custom did not appear in this on screen list.
>
>This leads  to the seemingly obvious conclusion they were not found or
>honoured. Only further investigation will show they had been copied to
>/boot/grub/grub.cfg .

Sorry, but this bug report is way too vague to be useful. You've shown
no output here, so we can only guess at what you're seeing. You're
comparing normal output to what an extra local script is saying,
maybe?

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