Bug#462218: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:31:57AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Robert Millan schrieb:
> >Suggestions?
> 
> For the time being I could duplicate the convert() function from 
> Debian's grub-installer to convert the device names.
> 
> However, I believe that there are plenty of cases in which you could use 
> a generic device name conversion tool...

Sorry, I got confused.  The generic linux-device / grub-drive conversion tool
is no problem.  I think it's fine to add it.

The problem is if you need grub-probe to work with an input different than
a filesystem path.

If you want the former, feel free to send a patch to grub-devel.  For the
latter, look at my questions and send some feedback.

Or, if nobody wants to send feedback, I guess I'll have to propose something
myself.  But I prefer if this is discussed (given that we have time).

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Robert Millan

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