Re: [PATCH] Support Fedora 13 initrd filenames

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:07:06PM +0100, Piscium wrote:
> On 28 June 2010 18:02, Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 08:00:27PM +0100, Piscium wrote:
> >> I am not sure where upstream for os-prober is. I downloaded 1.38 from
> >> Debian Sid. So if this is not the right mailing list to propose
> >> changes to os-prober, please let me know where I should go.
> >
> > os-prober is maintained as part of the debian-installer project.  Please
> > file bugs about it on the os-prober package in Debian.
> 
> I was wondering, what is the status of os-prober vis–à–vis grub2? Is
> it a required package or optional package? Is it considered part of
> grub2 or is it an external package?

It's an optional (though very useful) add-on.  It is not part of GRUB;
it is part of the Debian installer project.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden