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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem is that os-prober IS installed on the live-cd. The problem
is deeper in the live-cd generation script. It's something that we need
to test for the next iso. 

Regards,
Julien Lavergne

Le mardi 02 novembre 2010 à 15:46 +0000, Phill Whiteside a écrit :
> Hi Julien,
> 
> I've had a chance to have a chat with "Mr Grub" (Dave Stan, who writes
> up and maintains the grub community documentation etc.) A brief
> summary of our chat is..
> 
> (15:12:32) drs305_: phillw: As far as I've seen, lubuntu is the only
> one that doesn't ship os-prober. It's ridiculous and I have no idea
> why they didn't include it.
> (15:13:28) drs305_: "Oh, I'm new. I can't find Windows. I know - I'll
> install os-prober and that will find it. Good thing I knew that...."
> 
> Such calls are also hitting the main forum area, could I suggest that
> we include it. It is covered on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommonIssues along with the
> gvfs-backends one, but they are causing support queries to be raised.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 
> On 2 November 2010 12:39, Glenn de Groot <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         Are you using 10.10?
>         It only seems to be found in Lubuntu 10.10.
>         And do you have a windows partition, is it found by grub?
>         
>         > Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:08:46 +0000
>         > From: yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         > To: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         
>         > Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] People having trouble with
>         dualboots?
>         > 
>         
>         
>         > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:29:42 +0000
>         > Glenn de Groot <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         > 
>         > > 
>         > > Hi zoltan,
>         > > nice to hear your problem is solved now. This problem is
>         pretty big for first time users and I think affects every
>         dual-boot user. Should we post this (with the fix) on the
>         lubuntu website or on a blog like OMG ubuntu?
>         > >
>         > >
>         > I’ve not had this problem, all the other (Linux) OS have
>         been picked up by GRUB. But, if others are, then the cure
>         should be in the Wiki. Personally, I don’t regard OMG Ubuntu
>         as a reliable source. 
>         > 
>         > -- 
>         > Steve Cook (Yorvyk)
>         > 
>         > http://lubuntu.net 
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