Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Do you mean that something like this happens : Say you have 3 systems: A, B, and C Run update-grub on A and it finds A, B, and C - so 3 entries Run it then on B and it find the 3 entries in A's grub.cfg and builds it's own containing B, A, C (found directly) plus A, B, C copied from A's grub.cfg. Run it on C and you get C, A, B (found directly) plus A, B, C copied from A's grub.cfg plus B, A, C, A, B, C copied from B's grub.cfg. Thus you quickly end up with C, A, B, A, B, C, B, A, C, A, B, C - that's 12 entries after just once round the OSs. This will quickly run out of control, growing at an ever faster rate. If that's what is happening, then that suggests a lack of (effective) duplicate detection in update-grub - or perhaps there's none at all on the basis that you should not be having multiple installs like that ? _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
