Re: Grub Config File to long

[Dr. Heiko Pollmeier]

Gruß zuvor / Greetings first!

Thank you for the solution with GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true !

Now I have a working system again. Your tip saved me hours!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kind regards
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Am 22.05.2018 um 20:15 schrieb Pascal Hambourg:
> Le 22/05/2018 à 17:04, Dr. Heiko Pollmeier a écrit :
>>
>> Using different Ubuntu versions each update with new kernel forces
>> update-grub. Even when I initiate for some reason it lasts several hours
>> and generates .config file of over 100 (in words one hundred ) Mb size.
>> The utmost length in time took 52 hours!
> 
> Is this a multiboot setup with multiple GNU/Linux systems installed and
> using GRUB ?
> I have observed a similar behaviour under these conditions, although I
> could not really explain it. I suspect it is due to a misinterpretation
> of other system's grub.cfg file when generating grub.cfg.
> 
> If you have one active GRUB owned by one of the installed systems which
> has menu entries to boot the other systems, you can try this : on each
> system which does not own the active GRUB, disable os-prober (uninstall
> os-prober, remove/disable /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober or add
> GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true in /etc/default/grub) and run update-grub to
> generate a (hopefully) short grub.cfg. After you have done this on all
> systems which do not own the active GRUB, run update-grub on the system
> which owns the active GRUB.
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