On Sat 31 Aug 2013 at 09:23:40 -0700, David Guntner wrote: > Well, too late on "before you try that," but I had looked at the > partition. None of those files existed on that drive (or partition). > > I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as > /backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all > configured; I've just been doing an rsync to the drive). Since I was > backing up *everything*, I suppose there's a possibility that it saw > /backup/boot/[...] and acted on it, thought that seems an odd behavior
os-prober mounts the partition. Since you backed up everything surely it will see /boot, /boot/grub /etc etc. In an earlier mail you had > Found Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.7) on /dev/sdb1 The only way for that line to be generated is for an /etc/debian_version file to be found on the partition. Please see /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro > to me. I'm running the rsync again right now; when it completes I'll > run update-grub again and see if it mysteriously adds the extra entry > again. Then we'll know for sure. Why would it be mysterious? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130831174252.gb28...@copernicus.demon.co.uk