Hi David,

I've just forked os-prober here:
https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/os-prober

I will add your patches and push it into all suites so we have that bug
fixed when we get beta2 out.

Regards,
    Daniel.

On 09/05/16 08:31, David Hare wrote:
> Found it.. /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/90linux-distro .. here's a patch
> I did long back:
>

> 127a128,130
>>     elif [ -e "$dir/etc/devuan_version" ]; then
>>         short="Devuan"
>>         long="$(printf "Devuan GNU/Linux (%s)\n" "$(cat "$dir/etc/devuan_version")")"

>
> On 8 May 2016 at 20:57, David Hare <davidahare@???> wrote:
>>> (Note: I won't mess with /etc/default/grub unless instructed from above to
>> do so.)
>>
>> This needs fixing in Devuan, not refractainstaller. After my edit to
>> /etc/default/grub, the actual installation now shows correctly but
>> Devuan installs on other partitions still show as "unknown linux
>> distribution". There's an old list thread somewhere on that, I haven't
>> found it yet. I think it's to do with os-prober.
>>
>> BTW refractainstaller pauses near the end, while the target partition
>> is still mounted, allowing do do any manual tweaks or edits.
>>
>>
>> On 8 May 2016 at 18:12, fsmithred <fsmithred@???> wrote:
>>> On 05/08/2016 07:24 AM, David Hare wrote:
>>>>> please test also the install and other functionalities
>>>>
>>>> OK, I just did (step 1, the installer). Writing from my new install on
>>>> real hardware. The installation took 6 minutes on an old core2 with 2G
>>>> ram.
>>>>
>>>> One glitch, simple to fix.. on first boot slim puked, the installer
>>>> had failed to sort etc/slim.conf for the new username. I used startx,
>>>> edited manually and rebooted, now all is good.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Fixed in refractainstaller 9.1.8 (-base and -gui).
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/testing/
>>>
>>> (Note: I won't mess with /etc/default/grub unless instructed from above to
>>> do so.)
>>>
>>> -fsr
>>>
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