Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?
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From: H.S. on 13 Jul 2010 01:50 On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37 AM, H.S. <hs.samix(a)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 which works: <SNIP> >> >> So there still appears to be some problem somewhere. > > Yes. The Fedora/RHEL initrd names are not recognized by Debian/Ubuntu's grub... I see. Could you briefly explain why is that? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i1guhq$i5d$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Sven Joachim on 13 Jul 2010 02:10 On 2010-07-13 07:45 +0200, H.S. wrote: > On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Yes. The Fedora/RHEL initrd names are not recognized by Debian/Ubuntu's grub... It should work in os-prober 1.39. > I see. Could you briefly explain why is that? Because Fedora uses initramfs$something as the name for the initramfs, and os-prober versions before 1.39 only looked at initrd$something files. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj9fudgk.fsf(a)turtle.gmx.de
From: H.S. on 13 Jul 2010 02:20
On 13/07/10 01:58 AM, Tom H wrote: > > Quite frankly, I thought that this had been fixed (I read it on either > the Debian or Ubuntu bug reporting system), but I came across this > problem last year and the script was looking for initrds of the form > "initrd.img-..." and therefore ignored "initramfs..." files. Right. Thanks, to you and to Sven, for the explanation. I have os-prober 1.35, 1.39 is in Unstable. I just wait for it to appear in Testing. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i1h075$m1f$1(a)dough.gmane.org |