Bug#1009336: grub-pc: no GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER Documentation entry

[Yan Hetges]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 2.06-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

I just finished a fresh install (bullseye) on a thinkpad x260 that also has a windoze partition.

When I upgraded to sid:
[...]
Preparing to unpack .../grub-pc_2.06-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-pc (2.06-2) over (2.04-20) ...
Preparing to unpack .../grub2-common_2.06-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub2-common (2.06-2) over (2.04-20) ...
Preparing to unpack .../grub-pc-bin_2.06-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-pc-bin (2.06-2) over (2.04-20) ...
Preparing to unpack .../grub-common_2.06-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-common (2.06-2) over (2.04-20) ...
Setting up grub-common (2.06-2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/41_custom ...
Setting up grub2-common (2.06-2) ...
Setting up grub-pc-bin (2.06-2) ...
Setting up grub-pc (2.06-2) ...
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.16.0-6-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.16.0-6-amd64
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-13-amd64
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-13-amd64
Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.
done
[...] 

The Windows 10 entry was removed.

Please consider adding something like:

# Uncomment to enable os-prober
#GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

to /etc/default/grub

Thank you

  --Yan



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

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.79
ii  grub-common            2.06-2
ii  grub-pc-bin            2.06-2
ii  grub2-common           2.06-2
ii  ucf                    3.0043

grub-pc recommends no packages.

grub-pc suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  grub-pc/partition_description:
  grub-pc/install_devices_failed_upgrade: true
  grub-pc/hidden_timeout: false
  grub-pc/install_devices_failed: false
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
* grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet
  grub-pc/install_devices_empty: false
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
  grub-pc/mixed_legacy_and_grub2: true
  grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/postrm_purge_boot_grub: false
* grub2/linux_cmdline:
  grub2/force_efi_extra_removable: false
  grub-pc/kopt_extracted: false
  grub-pc/timeout: 2
  grub-pc/install_devices_disks_changed:
  grub2/update_nvram: true
  grub-pc/disk_description:
* grub-pc/install_devices: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-CT240BX500SSD1_2023E401C05E