Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: os-prober
update-grub2 reports:
r...@elf11:~# update-grub2
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-9-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-9-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Microsoft Windows XP Professional on /dev/sda1
Found Windows NT/2000/XP on /dev/sda2
Found Ubuntu 8.10 (8.10) on /dev/sda6
Found Ubuntu karmic (development branch) (9.10) on /dev/sda7
Found Ubuntu karmic (development branch) (9.10) on /dev/sda8
done
but grub.cfg fails to include boot records for /dev/sda6, /dev/sda7,
/dev/sda8.
Examining the log records generated by linux-boot-prober revealed that:
linux-boot-prober /dev/sda6
reported:
Sep 7 21:01:18 elf11 linux-boot-prober: Device '' does not exist;
skipping
I changed
newns
to
newns "$@"
which results in the device argument being passed correctly and the
correct records being generated in grub.cfg.
-- rec --
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
r...@elf11:~# apt-cache policy os-prober
os-prober:
Installed: 1.31
Candidate: 1.31
Version table:
*** 1.31 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Affects: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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linux-boot-prober
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426061
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