On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Lehman <dlehman(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 07:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 08/26/2011 10:01 PM, David Lehman wrote:
> >
> > We added code to automatically generate entries using os-prober, but
> > apparently os-prober is not available if you install from DVD without
> > enabling network repos. It's probably also unavailable if doing a live
> > install. We'll be working on rectifying this.
>
> Does this transparently detect other Linux distributions? If so, that
> needs testing and definitely worth highlighting in the documentation
It should find other linux distributions. I expect there to be issues
with the kernel command line arguments which will probably require some
upstream grub2 work to get sorted out.
I think that os-prober picks up grub.conf/menu.lst or grub.cfg
entries, if they exist, on the partitions that it probes.
I once landed through Google on a grub-devel post where one of the
grub developers said that os-prober wasn't a grub program but a
debian-boot one.