On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 10:25:54AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>Just for comparison, on Devuan ascii (stretch wirhout systend), I get:
>
>root@midwinter:/home/hendrik# os-prober
>File descriptor 8 (socket:[13898]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 2831:
>/bin/sh
>File descriptor 9 (socket:[13899]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 2831:
>/bin/sh
>File descriptor 10 (socket:[16454]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 2831:
>/bin/sh
>File descriptor 11 (socket:[16455]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 2831:
>/bin/sh
>File descriptor 18 (socket:[13991]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID 2831:
>/bin/sh
>/dev/sda6:Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid:Debian:linux
>root@midwinter:/home/hendrik#
>
>Here it also does not recognise the OS it runs on, but it *does* recognise
>Debian.
>
>Could the problem be that it is does not recognise
> (a) its own OS, nor
os-prober is not supposed to find the OS it's running under, that's
the design. It's only looking for other OS installations.
> (b) any OS those root partition in on an LVM volume, even if its /boot
> is on a primary partition?
It should happily find such setups. One of my own test systems at home
has root on LVM, no issues.
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