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From: | Gene Czarcinski |
Subject: | multi-boot |
Date: | Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:14:00 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 |
I agree. Os-prober and the way it works with 30_os-prober is fragile at best and sometimes produces incorrect configurations.
Personally, I use a variation of the manually configured option described in section 5.3: I install a very small system and then use /etc/grub.d/40_custom to provide my multi-boot options ... mostly by chainloading configfile.
In section 5.3, there is also mention of "fixing it is scheduled for the next release" and "it" refers to os-prober. OK, what is the story? Is anything being done to improve easy configuration for multi-boot?
Just what is the status of using/depending-on os-prober?Some distributions such as SUSE, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu (?) believe that users want some type of auto-config which enables them to bootup their old systems when a new install replaces the MBR and points to this newly install system.
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