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os-prober package

  1. Bug #26031
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 26031

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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote : Re: [Bug 26031] Re: grub menu contains "combinatorial expansion" of existing installations

Come to think of it, can this bug cause existing installations to
become unbootable after a while ? Consider a machine with only two
installs, each of which runs update-grub occasionally.

Each time update-grub is run in install A, A's menu.list is made to be
twice the size of B's, and vice versa. So after running update-grub
five times in each install, in alternation, the menu.list will have
O(1000) entries (x the original three or so). We don't know when bug
54041 triggers.

Perhaps this bug should be `High' ?

Ian.