On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Lehman dlehman@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 07:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 08/26/2011 10:01 PM, David Lehman wrote:
We added code to automatically generate entries using os-prober, but apparently os-prober is not available if you install from DVD without enabling network repos. It's probably also unavailable if doing a live install. We'll be working on rectifying this.
Does this transparently detect other Linux distributions? If so, that needs testing and definitely worth highlighting in the documentation
It should find other linux distributions. I expect there to be issues with the kernel command line arguments which will probably require some upstream grub2 work to get sorted out.
I think that os-prober picks up grub.conf/menu.lst or grub.cfg entries, if they exist, on the partitions that it probes.
I once landed through Google on a grub-devel post where one of the grub developers said that os-prober wasn't a grub program but a debian-boot one.