[Bug 1660159] Re: os-prober fails to see other installed systems

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 06:47:34AM -0000, dino99 wrote:
> when edited with file, i'm seeing some ' $( ) ' red highlighted, mainly
> into the osx_entry() section, but also ' #/boot '

That's just vim being excessively conservative by default.  Its sh
syntax highlighter defaults to the very old Bourne shell, but every
legitimate /bin/sh implementation on Ubuntu is a POSIX shell (based on
the Korn shell) which is somewhat more capable.  ":let g:is_posix = 1"
should give the highlighter a bit more clue.  See ":help sh.vim" for
more details.

None of this has anything to do with this bug.

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Title:
  os-prober fails to see other installed systems

Status in os-prober package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in os-prober source package in Zesty:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Running sudo update-grub I found that all the existing installations
  were lost from grub. Leaving just the running xubuntu in grub.

  Generating grub configuration file ...
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-15-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-15-generic
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-12-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-12-generic
  done

  Downgraded to os-prober_1.73ubuntu1 and rerun of update-grub showed
  the same.

  Downgraded to os-prober_1.70ubuntu5 and running update-grub now shows

  Generating grub configuration file ...
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-15-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-15-generic
  Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-12-generic
  Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-12-generic
  Found Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (16.04) on /dev/sdb5
  Found Ubuntu 16.10 (16.10) on /dev/sdb7
  Found Ubuntu Zesty Zapus (development branch) (17.04) on /dev/sdb8

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: os-prober 1.73ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.9.0-15.16-generic 4.9.5
  Uname: Linux 4.9.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Sun Jan 29 16:45:46 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-11 (231 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160611)
  SourcePackage: os-prober
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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