kilobyte wrote: >At this point, I'd just enable os-prober unconditionally, and think of a
Erm, *no*?! os-prober corrupts data when called (in virtualisation/emulation guests, at the very least). Steve wrote: >I'm also pondering tweaking things in d-i to re-enable os-prober if >the system looks like it might have some other OS installed. Yes, I But what if the system has *both* other OSes installed *and* is used as virtualisation host (when booting Debian) at the same time? You’ll still get data corruption of unrelated data (VM guests). I consider that inacceptable, but apparently YMMV… bye, //mirabilos -- [...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be- ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :) -- Ted Unangst über *fs