Hi Valorie,
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:04:45PM -0700, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> I'm not a developer, but I need to respond here that removal of os-prober
> made my newish 22.04 Kubuntu install unbootable until the amazing System76
> support team helped me test every other possibility and when it
I'm not a developer, but I need to respond here that removal of os-prober
made my newish 22.04 Kubuntu install unbootable until the amazing System76
support team helped me test every other possibility and when it became
evident that it was the absence of os-prober causing the issue, to add it
back
On 2021-12-17 17:01, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
Hi ubuntu-devel,
os-prober is disabled with the grub 2.06 upload, which is
obviously a bit controversial and the outcome is not
necessarily in the best interest of our users.
My understanding is that the result from this discussion is this commit
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 05:01:59PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>We could run os-prober during install time, store the
>output somewhere and then reuse the cached output in
>grub-mkconfig.
d-i at least used to have code to do exactly this (in grub-installer).
I don't know/recall a
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 05:33:24PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> 2. For new installs, set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false from within
>our various installers (I guess desktop ones are sufficient, does
>anyone dual boot servers?)
Quite aside from the fact that there's a long-term plan to
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 05:01:59PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Hi ubuntu-devel,
>
> os-prober is disabled with the grub 2.06 upload, which is
> obviously a bit controversial and the outcome is not
> necessarily in the best interest of our users.
>
> # Reasons
>
> os-prober is inherently
I think running at install time and caching the output somewhere makes
sense for most cases. You can create some documentation on how to re-run
it at manually to regenerate that output if you have consciously added
another operating system and want to detect it one off.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 10
Hi ubuntu-devel,
os-prober is disabled with the grub 2.06 upload, which is
obviously a bit controversial and the outcome is not
necessarily in the best interest of our users.
# Reasons
os-prober is inherently insecure as it mounts all partitions
on your disk using grub-mount to check them for ot
