Since the grub 2.06 upload, os-prober is now disabled by default. This
means that other operating systems are no longer detected and added to
grub by default in Debian 12.
I haven't followed further on to which solution they went with, but
since it's so late in the development cycle, wouldn't it make sense to
enable os-prober for Live systems for Debian 12, and then look at some
of the better solutions (like only probing at install time, and keeping
a cached results for grub) for Debian 13?
jcc@debian.org wrote:
Since the grub 2.06 upload, os-prober is now disabled by default. This >means that other operating systems are no longer detected and added to
grub by default in Debian 12.
I haven't followed further on to which solution they went with, but
since it's so late in the development cycle, wouldn't it make sense to
I'm also pondering tweaking things in d-i to re-enable os-prober if
the system looks like it might have some other OS installed. Yes, I
realise that may sound odd(!), but I can see a number of users
complaining that their dual-boot system doesn't work any more... :-/
At this point, I'd just enable os-prober unconditionally, and think of a
I'm also pondering tweaking things in d-i to re-enable os-prober if
the system looks like it might have some other OS installed. Yes, I
kilobyte wrote:
At this point, I'd just enable os-prober unconditionally, and think of a
Erm, *no*?!
os-prober corrupts data when called (in virtualisation/emulation
guests, at the very least).
Steve wrote:
I'm also pondering tweaking things in d-i to re-enable os-prober if
the system looks like it might have some other OS installed. Yes, I
But what if the system has *both* other OSes installed *and* is
used as virtualisation host (when booting Debian) at the same time?
You’ll still get data corruption of unrelated data (VM guests).
I consider that inacceptable, but apparently YMMV…
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