os-prober doesn't require that GRUB 2 is installed - it's a standalone
program, in fact not originally written for use with GRUB 2 at all,
which just needs to be run as root. If it's producing no output, it's
probably because it didn't detect anything (there'll be verbose output
in syslog).
It would probably not be very hard to add this support, but I don't have
any BSD-based systems to hand. Could you provide technical details of
how to detect FreeBSD reliably? For example:
* What partition types might it use?
* What file names might we look for?
* How could we distinguish FreeBSD from other BSD variants?
* Any other gotchas you know about?
os-prober doesn't require that GRUB 2 is installed - it's a standalone
program, in fact not originally written for use with GRUB 2 at all,
which just needs to be run as root. If it's producing no output, it's
probably because it didn't detect anything (there'll be verbose output
in syslog).
I don't think os-prober has any code to detect BSD systems at all right bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 234470 was filed
now. http://
some time ago about this and I don't see any BSD-related code in the
source.
It would probably not be very hard to add this support, but I don't have
any BSD-based systems to hand. Could you provide technical details of
how to detect FreeBSD reliably? For example:
* What partition types might it use?
* What file names might we look for?
* How could we distinguish FreeBSD from other BSD variants?
* Any other gotchas you know about?