Bug#547692: [grub-pc] Wipes Windows entry after upgrading to GRUB 2

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 22.09.2009, 18:09 +0100 schrieb Antonio Marcos López
Alonso:
> El Lunes 21 Septiembre 2009, Felix Zielcke escribió:
> > Am Montag, den 21.09.2009, 16:27 +0100 schrieb Antonio Marcos López
> > 
> > Alonso:
> > > Package: grub-pc
> > > Version: 1.97~beta3-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > > GRUB 2 has wiped the previously existing Windows XP entry.
> > 
> > What does this mean?
> > Did you had the grub package of squeeze installed previously and so
> > grub-legacy and now got grub2 because it now depends on grub-pc?
> > Then just install os-prober and run update-grub again.
> > 
> 
> Thanks! That did the trick.
> 
> However, may I suggest turning this bug report into a wishlist item? Debian 
> installer automatically detects and inserts into the GRUB boot menu any OS 
> aside Linux, so it would be nice migrating to GRUB 2 take into account a 
> similar process, maybe considering os-prober as a dependency and updating grub 
> within a post-installation script.

We recommend it now again but it's versioned becaues of bugs in
os-prober.
So in squeeze you won't get it automatically yet.
A dependency would be wrong, os-prober isn't needed for everyone.
Not everyone who uses Debian has some other OS installed
The new os-prober is now unblocked, so in 10 days it should be in
squeeze.


-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer