os-prober is a command that lists other operating systems. It is used during installation and reconfiguration to create a GRUB boot menu that shows other installed OSes as well as Ubuntu.
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Device /dev/sdb1 not found in os-prober output
Trying to install Unbuntu on an older PC that has a Celeron 2.5GHz CPU and 1GB RAM with (2) 40GB HDDs. Running off USB drive. Here is the log I keep getting:
ubuntu ubiquity[4286]: Device /dev/sdb1 ...
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OS-Prober not recognized! [closed]
So due to some shenanigans with trying to get rid of all traces of grub-customizer, I accidentally hit "delete" an extra time while in a root nautilus, and deleted my os-prober script in ...
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os-prober doesn't find Arch Linux until I manually mount Arch Linux partition
Title says everything. Here is output of Boot info script: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1169338/
sudo os-prober returns only Windows partition:
sudo os-prober
/dev/sda2:Windows 7 (loader):Windows:chain
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Ubuntu's grub not recognizing arch-linux
I followed the instructions here as suggested here and that didn't help so any ideas?
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os-prober fails to identify a linux system so I need to write a custom grub2 menu entry as a workaround, how?
I want to add a custom menu to grub2 like this (as /etc/grub.d/40_custom):
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries ...
