On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:19:10PM +0100, David Hare wrote:
> Don't know if there is an "official" plan to sort this. It is an annoyance
> that os-prober (normally run at update-grub) detects my
> (bootstrap-installed) Devuan as "Unknown Linux Distribution" then that's
> what you get in grub menu.
>
> This is fixed here by adding after line 23 of
> /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro :
>
> elif [ -e "$dir/etc/devuan_version" ]; then
> short="Devuan"
> long="$(printf "Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n" "$(cat
> "$dir/etc/devuan_version")")"
Have you submitted this patch to os-prober? If not, please do so (or tell
us you won't). This way:
1. there'll be no need to patch this in Devuan separately
2. systems with both Debian and Devuan will have proper grubbage
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(
https://github.com/kilobyte/braillefont for this hack)