Unmounted OS are not found
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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os-prober (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: os-prober
natty i386 updated
os-prober only find other os when these partitions are mounted, otherwise its completly blind and dont add them to grub menu. This happen with a minimal fstab: active os partition + swap. Mounting the other os first, then running sudo os-prober, built a grub menu with these entries.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: os-prober 1.42
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 18 18:24:11 2011
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: os-prober
Sadly, each time installing packages that make grub menu rebuilt, the previous good grub menu is lost if all the OS partitions are not mounted. What is expected: os-prober might be able to scan and find all the OS installed on all devices, mounted or not.