On Nov 26, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 11/26/2013 02:00 PM, Javier Perez wrote:
> For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora unless I mount the disk
> each time I update ubuntu kernel.
How do you expect Ubuntu to find a kernel on an unmounted partition?
Neither Windows nor OS X have such a requirement, and yet they co-exist and can boot their
siblings of various versions just fine.
Now, ostensibly os-prober can read content without them being mounted, so it can find
/etc/fstab, and various other things it's looking for, to figure out what systems are
installed and how to put them together so it can create a grub.cfg entry for them. Because
of the litany of completely non-standard layouts possible by linux alone, this can be a
problem, not least of which is if root is encrypted.
Chris Murphy