Bug#545154: grub-pc: on upgrade other OS are not carried over, and os-prober does not work

[Norbert Preining]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.97~beta2-2
Severity: normal

I had some static menu.lst stanza for booting Windows XP and the Vista
recovery partition. Both are lost during the upgrade to grub-pc.

Furthermore, expecting that that magical os-prober thingy would find them,
but alas, not at all.

Vista recovery is on sda1, ntfs
Xp is on sda2, ntfs

all worked before without any problems.

Please fix.

Best

Norbert

-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8 / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/sda2 /xp fuseblk rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/loop0 /media/TLDVD iso9660 ro,relatime 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0)	/dev/sda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,3)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
  set gfxmode=640x480
  insmod gfxterm
  insmod vbe
  if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
    # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
    # understand terminal_output
    terminal gfxterm
  fi
fi
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,3)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
insmod png
if background_image /boot/grub/moreblue-orbit-grub.png ; then
  set color_normal=black/black
  set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.31-rc8" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,3)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-rc8 root=UUID=961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8 ro  quiet
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-rc8
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.31-rc8 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,3)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-rc8 root=UUID=961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8 ro single 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-rc8
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.31-rc7" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,3)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-rc7 root=UUID=961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8 ro  quiet
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-rc7
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.31-rc7 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,3)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-rc7 root=UUID=961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8 ro single 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-rc7
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,3)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=UUID=961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8 ro  quiet
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.30 (recovery mode)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,3)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30 root=UUID=961635f4-762d-4136-a3d5-35fca8e4f3d8 ro single 
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
	linux	/boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
	linux	/boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file is an example on how to add custom entries
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.27       Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common                 1.97~beta2-2 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                       2.9-26       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                         3.0021       Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem

-- debconf information:
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
* grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/sda