In second 5.3 of the GNU GRUB 2.00 manual, there is a statement
"Currently autogenerating config files for multi-boot environments
depends on os-prober and has several shortcomings."
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.
Comments?
Gene
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