Bug#1030938: os-prober: Does not detect OpenSuse Tumbleweed

[Frank McCormick]

Package: os-prober
Version: 1.81
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: bea...@videotron.ca


Debian Sid updated Grub today and when os-prober ran via update-grub it did not detect
my OpenSuse Tumbleweed partition.
The update had installed the new Grub so I could not boot into
Tumbleweed.

Now I have held all the grub packages so I won't be faced
with this again. The Tumbleweed grub installation and it's version
of os-prober does detect both Debian and Fedora on another partition.
FYI Fedoras os-prober also doesn't detect Tumbleweed but that's a
problem I'll report to them.





-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii grub-common 2.06-8
ii libc6 2.36-8
ii mount 2.38.1-4

os-prober recommends no packages.

os-prober suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Frank,

On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 11:58:58AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>Package: os-prober
>Version: 1.81
>Severity: wishlist
>X-Debbugs-Cc: bea...@videotron.ca
>
>
>Debian Sid updated Grub today and when os-prober ran via update-grub it did not detect
>my OpenSuse Tumbleweed partition.
>The update had installed the new Grub so I could not boot into
>Tumbleweed.
>
>Now I have held all the grub packages so I won't be faced
>with this again. The Tumbleweed grub installation and it's version
>of os-prober does detect both Debian and Fedora on another partition.
>FYI Fedoras os-prober also doesn't detect Tumbleweed but that's a
>problem I'll report to them.

This is most likely a grub issue - the defaults have changed to *not*
run os-prober by default.

If so, edit /etc/default/grub and set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
then run update-grub this will fix your problem. Or run
dpkg-reconfigure on your grub package (either grub-pc or
grub-efi-amd64) and the latest grub packages will ask you about
os-prober.

--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.