From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JIOcx-0004fD-Kg for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:29:51 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIOcv-0004cz-7n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:29:49 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JIOct-0004bL-3g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:29:48 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIOcs-0004az-L9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:29:46 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JIOcs-0006OH-FX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:29:46 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JIOaD-0001mJ-6f; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:27:03 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JIOV6-0001LZ-H5; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:21:44 +0100 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:21:44 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: Fabian Greffrath Message-ID: <20080125132144.GA5142@thorin> References: <479883AD.6060005@leat.rub.de> <87myqvz0n5.fsf@ossystems.com.br> <4799AE42.8010603@leat.rub.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4799AE42.8010603@leat.rub.de> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org, Otavio Salvador , 461442@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#461442: please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in update-grub X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:29:49 -0000 On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:39:14AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Otavio Salvador schrieb: > >os-prober is developed inside Debian Installer team. > > > >I think it's two different but reports and then it would be nice to > >report a specific bug (maybe with a proposed patch) for os-prober to > >provide what you'd need and then we can push it. > > I believe the issue is even easier to solve. I simply need to run > 'linux-boot-prober' (in the same package as os-prober, it seems I am > blinded) on the partition for which the 'linux' boot keyword is reported > and interpret it's output. Expect more work on this next week. I am > sorry I cannot test my script drafts, because I have no other *nix > besides Debian on my machine (the first of The Ten Commandments). ;) You could try with qemu. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)