Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-13 07:45 +0200, H.S. wrote: On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: Yes. The Fedora/RHEL initrd names are not recognized by Debian/Ubuntu's grub... It should work in os-prober 1.39. I see. Could you briefly explain why is that? Because Fedora uses initramfs$something as the name

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-07-13 07:45 +0200, H.S. wrote: On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: Yes. The Fedora/RHEL initrd names are not recognized by Debian/Ubuntu's grub... It should work in os-prober 1.39. Thanks for the info. As I said

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-13 Thread H.S.
On 13/07/10 01:58 AM, Tom H wrote: Quite frankly, I thought that this had been fixed (I read it on either the Debian or Ubuntu bug reporting system), but I came across this problem last year and the script was looking for initrds of the form initrd.img-... and therefore ignored initramfs...

[SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:45 PM, H.S. wrote: On 12/07/10 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc:

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 03:07 PM, H.S. wrote: Curiously though, update-grub is now detecting Fedora 13! It was not Well, I wrote that too soon. Here is what update-grub puts in /boot/grub /grub.cfg regarding the Fedora 13 installation: ### menuentry

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37 AM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/07/10 03:07 PM, H.S. wrote: Curiously though, update-grub is now detecting Fedora 13! It was not Well, I wrote that too soon. Here is what update-grub puts in /boot/grub /grub.cfg regarding the Fedora 13 installation:

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37 AM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: It is missing the initrd line. Without that line the kernel does not boot and panics and halts. I have to put the correct stanza myself in /etc/grub.d/40_custom to get the correct grub entry

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:45 AM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37 AM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: It is missing the initrd line. Without that line the kernel does not boot and panics and halts. I have to put the correct