Bug#686754: why 686754 is not a bug

[Hendrik Boom]

I hit this bug, read the previous messages, and wondered why it had 
not been fixed in so long.  I resolved to fix it myself, and spent 
some time reading the code.

But then I was diverted to other tasks, and when I returned to the bug 
a week later, it suddenly dawned on me why it was not a bug.

When grub-install uses its varous tools to survey the disk and make 
proper boot stanzas, it tries as much as possible to figure out how 
the other OS's want to be booted and place that information in its 
boot stanzas.

And the copied OS plainly states how it wants to be booted in its  
copied boot stanzas -- namely, exactly like the originally uncopied 
OS, so in the newly created boot stanza, that's exactly what it gets 
-- a copy of the copy of the original stanza.

So that's what we get.  And to fix it we have to make sure that the 
copied system is altered to refer to itself, just as its /etc/fstab is 
altered to refer to itself.

-- hendrik