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Yew

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Registered: 2023-02-07

Posts: 9

Grub os-prober not probing - [SOLVED]

Hi

I edited

cat /etc/default/grub|grep -i prober
# documentation on GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER, if still want to enable this
# functionality install os-prober and uncomment to detect and include other
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

and then mounted the partitions I wanted to be included on the grub menu,

then ran

grub-mkconfig -o grub.cfg

in /boot/grub

But it did not probe for OS. So I edited:

/etc/grub.d/30_os-prober

And removed the checks so that at least I got:

Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.

But it still did not find any operating systems even though I have mounted debian, Windows 10, and FreeDOS.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Yew (2023-02-07 16:50:08)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: Grub os-prober not probing - [SOLVED]

What did you mount? Is os-prober installed in the first place? Does os-prober run on it's own give you probe information?

Yew

Member

Registered: 2023-02-07

Posts: 9

Re: Grub os-prober not probing - [SOLVED]

What did you mount? Is os-prober installed in the first place? Does os-prober run on it's own give you probe information?

I had not installed os-prober. (I did not know it was a separate package) so I installed it.

I re-installed grub to undo my changes now all is fine, thanks!