Bug#1020769: grub: please don't warn about os-prober if it's not even installed

[Axel Beckert]

tag -1 + annoying ;-)

Hi,

Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> I've been somewhat bothered by the warning about os-prober:
> 
>     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.

Just wanted to report the same.

> I appreciate the security issue, however this system never ever had
> os-prober installed in it...

Ack. Most hosts who run Debian are not dualboot and just don't care
about os-prober.

> I'm attaching a patch, I'll let you forward it to upstream however they
> like it, or incorporate it as a local patch...

Thanks for the patch and +1! :-)

> (or just diregard me :P)

Nope. You're not alone.

In that sense: Ping! (to the grub maintainers :-)

P.S.: This also affected Debian Stable from June to August this year
until the patches luckily were reverted there.

		Regards, Axel
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