Bug#618498: Grub2 did not find all os-systems

[Colin Watson]

clone 618498 -1
reassign 618498 grub-installer: grub-mkconfig does not pick up correct os-prober output when run from installer
reassign -1 os-prober: Puppy Linux not detected
thanks

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 06:29:12PM +0100, Erik Grootjans wrote:
> I did a clean install of debian 6 Squeeze on my netbook.
> 
> After the isnstallation i had only 2 grub items
> - debian
> - and debian single mode
> 
> The other os-s had not been recognized.
> 
> I did a upgrade-grub
> And grub did found 2 more OS-en
> 
> - XP-loader (on /dev/sda1)
> -Microsoft XP Home Edition (on /dev/sda2)

This part is a grub-installer bug (which I think has already been
reported, but I haven't looked up the bug number).

> Again Puppy Linux was not found.
> In the past i have Puppy Linux copyed from USB to HD (/dev/sda8)
> And added vmlinuz an initrd.gz to the menu.list in grub
> These files are located in the root / directory (the same as by
> debian, only
> the name slightly differs)

This part is an os-prober bug.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]