Bug 697517 - grub2-mkconfig does not find other systems
Summary: grub2-mkconfig does not find other systems
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lubomir Rintel
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 678456
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-18 14:01 UTC by Barry Fishman
Modified: 2011-09-06 13:02 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-09-06 13:02:24 UTC
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Description Barry Fishman 2011-04-18 14:01:41 UTC
Description of problem:

uname -a
Linux ecube.site 2.6.38.2-9.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 30 16:55:57 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The grub.cfg file generated by grub2-mkconfig only contains entries for
the kernels in the local /boot directory.  This makes it difficult to
boot other OS's available in a multi-boot setup.

Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu Maverick/Natty seem to find all the potential
partitions that are bootable.  Even SuSE using grub1 sets up chainload
entries to start up grub2 on these partitions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Found in Fedora 14 and Fedora 15 beta

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run grub2-mkconfig >temp.cfg
2. grep menuentry temp.cfg
  
Actual results:
menuentry "GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.38.2-9.fc15.x86_64" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.38.2-9.fc15.x86_64 (recovery mode)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {


Expected results:

For me, something more like:

menuentry "GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.38.2-9.fc15.x86_64" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.38.2-9.fc15.x86_64 (recovery mode)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
menuentry "Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" --class windows --class os {
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda2)" --class windows --class os {
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (on /dev/sda3)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda3)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (on /dev/sda5)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (recovery mode) (on /dev/sda5)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "Fedora release 15 (Lovelock) (on /dev/sdb1)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "openSUSE 11.4 (on /dev/sdb2)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
menuentry "Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.4 (on /dev/sdb2)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {

Additional info:

Comment 1 Hedayat Vatankhah 2011-05-08 17:21:45 UTC
This is due to bug #678456

Comment 2 Barry Fishman 2011-09-06 13:02:24 UTC
Not a problem when the additional module is loaded.  Why this second module is required is a matter for bug #678456


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