On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 08:25:19PM -0500, Hector Gonzalez wrote: > On 08/28/2017 06:59 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:50:42PM -0500, Hector Gonzalez wrote: > >>On 08/28/2017 06:35 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>>On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 03:56:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >>>>On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:37:04PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>>>>Now I can't figure out how to set options so that update-grub uses > >>>>>os-prober. > >>>>You do have the os-prober package installed, yes? > >>>Yes. > >>> > >>>root@notlookedfor:/boot/grub# which os-prober > >>>/usr/bin/os-prober > >>>root@notlookedfor:/boot/grub# > >>> > >>>I'm running a Devuan Jessie system. > >>>-- hendrik > >>> > >>I did this a few days ago, try commenting out the option completely, the > >>default is to run os-prober. > >Originally, the option was not present at all. I added the option in > >myself. Being totally absent should be as good as commented out, > >right? > > > >Anyway, as I mentined in another post a few minutes ago, it does seem > >to be recognising it after all, but as a unknown Linux distro, > >failing tto notice it's Devun. And I don't get a bootmenu stanza. > > > >-- hendrik > Ok, I just found out the problem with my test install, I installed with > debootstrap, but forgot to add a kernel. Please check your /target/boot > directory, it may be empty, os-prober finds library files, and assumes it's > a bootable linux system, but checks for a kernel at a later time. If you > want it identified as a debian system, copy etc/devuan_version to > etc/debian_version (I don't know if it has any side effects, but it's easier > to rename the grub entry).
Thank you! I think you nailed it! When I copied /boot to /ascii/boot, which is to be mounted as /boot on the new system, I seem to have slipped up and got an extra directory, so it is at /ascii/boot/boot, which will appear as /boot/boot when mounted on the new system instead of at /boot. I'll have to debug the copy command. Funny that nothing like it seems to haave happened on /usr, /var, or / iself. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng