On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 12:38:40AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 18:22:54 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > > grub-mkconfig doesn't care about the fstab of the running distro > > > since it scans your drives for all operating systems it can boot. > > > > > Sorry if I missed something in this tome, but I was under the > > impression that a seperate utility, os-prober (or something similar), > > was needed to scan outside of the current partition. Some distros do > > not include this type of utility by default, but it has been 3 years > > since I installed my Gentoo and I just don't remember. Is this > > off-topic? > > os-prober scans for Windows and other non-Linux installations.
That's true, but it seems to imply it does not scan for Linux, which is not true to my understanding. os-prober is just a shell script, but a little dense for me to make conclusions of; maybe you can make sense of it, if you have it. However, the Ubuntu people say this: "30_os-prober This script uses os-prober to search for Linux and other operating systems and places the results in the GRUB 2 menu. 1. The file's sections include options for Windows, Linux, OSX, and Hurd." The full quote is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup My point was just to see if this information was helpful to the OP. Like I said, I kind-of lost track of this thread. If it's not helpful, that's fine.
