os-prober doesn't require that GRUB 2 is installed - it's a standalone program, in fact not originally written for use with GRUB 2 at all, which just needs to be run as root. If it's producing no output, it's probably because it didn't detect anything (there'll be verbose output in syslog).
I don't think os-prober has any code to detect BSD systems at all right now. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234470 was filed some time ago about this and I don't see any BSD-related code in the source. It would probably not be very hard to add this support, but I don't have any BSD-based systems to hand. Could you provide technical details of how to detect FreeBSD reliably? For example: * What partition types might it use? * What file names might we look for? * How could we distinguish FreeBSD from other BSD variants? * Any other gotchas you know about? -- FreeBSD not detected by os-prober https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432254 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
