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Skribent: Hendrik Boom
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Til: dng
Emne: Re: [DNG] os-prober detects Devuan as "Unknown Linux Distribution"
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:59:20AM +0100, David Hare wrote:
> On 05/10/15 22:25, Adam Borowski wrote:
> >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
> >
>
> Of course I could submit this to os-prober, presumably as a bug
> report with patch. They might not be sympathetic, os-prober is a
> mainstream-Debian utility (and Devuan has yet no official release)


Surely even Debian has to admit the possibility of a dual boot etween
themselves and devuan?

-- hendrik