Re: search function addons broken.

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Sonntag, den 13.12.2009, 20:52 -0500 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> I pulled the tarball from gnu.org & built it.  And as you say, some
> things 
> have been renamed.  But the grub-mkconfig is just as broken as ever,
> and I'm 
> half temped to see if I can cobble up a bash script to replace it.
> The whole 
> idea of how it works now is completely broken.  It should search every
> drive 
> partition on the system that has a vmlinuz file on it, construct the
> proper 
> (hdx,x) assignment to find it, and take any existing grub.conf's and 
> translate them to grub2 syntax.
> 
> It does neither the grub./grub2 syntax translations, nor does it
> search any 
> boot partition except the one its booted from. 

Well we support os-prober to add other OSes also other Linux
distributions.
The only disadvantage is that os-prober currently only is packaged in
Debian and Ubuntu (and maybe other distributions based on them)
Because it originally comes from Debian.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer