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Re: search function addons broken.
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Felix Zielcke |
Subject: |
Re: search function addons broken. |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:09:17 +0100 |
Am Sonntag, den 13.12.2009, 20:52 -0500 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> I pulled the tarball from gnu.org & built it. And as you say, some
> things
> have been renamed. But the grub-mkconfig is just as broken as ever,
> and I'm
> half temped to see if I can cobble up a bash script to replace it.
> The whole
> idea of how it works now is completely broken. It should search every
> drive
> partition on the system that has a vmlinuz file on it, construct the
> proper
> (hdx,x) assignment to find it, and take any existing grub.conf's and
> translate them to grub2 syntax.
>
> It does neither the grub./grub2 syntax translations, nor does it
> search any
> boot partition except the one its booted from.
Well we support os-prober to add other OSes also other Linux
distributions.
The only disadvantage is that os-prober currently only is packaged in
Debian and Ubuntu (and maybe other distributions based on them)
Because it originally comes from Debian.
--
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer