On Monday 11 June 2018 06:40:41 Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives > > hooked up. I don't need grub to fill half the boot screen with data > > from the other drives. > > Once your Debian installation is finished, put this in > /etc/default/grub: GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true > > Then run > update-grub > to remove the unwanted entries from your grub menu. > > The Grub info documentation describes it as follows: > 'GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER' > Normally, 'grub-mkconfig' will try to use the external > 'os-prober' program, if installed, to discover other operating systems > installed on the same system and generate appropriate menu entries for > them. Set this option to 'true' to disable this. > > Disconnecting disks while installing Debian can help avoid mistakes. > However, it does not permanently suppress the boot menu entries > referring to other OS installations. > > Regards, > Mirko
Thanks Mirko, that will be handy. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
