Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Fri Jan 18 19:24:34 UTC 2008


Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Package: grub2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know if it is possible (or maybe even planned) to integrate 
> the code into update-grub, that detects other (mostly proprietary) OSes 
> on my harddrive(s) during D-I?
> I mean, it would be cool to have e.g.WinXP detetcted and added to the 
> GRUB-menu via a simple update-grub.

It's done during d-i using os-probe.

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