Klaus grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 30/08/13 19:11, David Guntner wrote:
>> David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>>>
>>> Not only that, but given the comments around all the sections that point
>>> at /etc/grub.d/{whatever}, does this mean that /boot/grub/grub.cfg is
>>> being built by something, from those other files? If so, it seems that
>>> directly editing /boot/grub/grub.cfg might not be such a good idea....
>>
>> Well, looking again at the grub.cfg file, specifically the top of the
>> file, which has this in it:
>>
>>> #
>>> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
>>> #
>>> # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
>>> # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
>>> #
>>
>> I'd say that answers *that* question (of whether or not it's a good idea
>> to edit the file directly). :-) So I'm not entirely sure why someone
>> would point anyone at that file as the way to edit the
>> configuration.... :-/
>>
>> Anyway, if anyone else knows how I can convince grub that there's
>> nothing on /dev/sdb1 to try and boot from (so I can get it off the boot
>> menu), I'd sure love to know how to do it. :-) Why does the
>> 30_os-prober come to the conclusion that there's something there?
>
> You can disable the "os-prober" action by setting
> GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER = true
> in /etc/default/grub.
> See comments in /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober and in
> /usr/share/doc/os-prober/README
Ok, I'll look into that. Of course, I'm still kinda wondering why it
thinks there's a version of Linux out on that drive - I mean, if it's
actually *probing* the drive and it doesn't find something to boot from,
why is it coming up with that?
Hmmm..... I wonder if the MBR for the drive sill has a loader on it,
even though I removed all partitions and repartitioned it? Is there a
utility out there that can wipe the MBR of a drive without touching the
rest of the contents?
--Dave
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