The updates of today brought os-prober v1.32 which seems to work right.
It generated a new grub.cfg by scanning all the partitions once and in order, with correct result.
...
Running postinst hook script /usr/sbin/update-grub.
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-10-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-10-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-9-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-9-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Ubuntu 9.04 (9.04) on /dev/sda1
Found Ubuntu 8.10 (8.10) on /dev/sda3
Found Ubuntu karmic (development branch) (9.10) on /dev/sda5
Found Linux Mint 7 Gloria - x64 Edition (7) on /dev/sda9
Found Ubuntu 8.04.1 (8.04) on /dev/sdb1
Found Ubuntu 9.04 (9.04) on /dev/sdb2
Found Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition (7) on /dev/sdb3
done
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Re-hi,
The updates of today brought os-prober v1.32 which seems to work right.
It generated a new grub.cfg by scanning all the partitions once and in order, with correct result.
... update- grub. 2.6.31- 10-generic img-2.6. 31-10-generic 2.6.31- 9-generic img-2.6. 31-9-generic +.bin
Running postinst hook script /usr/sbin/
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86
Found Ubuntu 9.04 (9.04) on /dev/sda1
Found Ubuntu 8.10 (8.10) on /dev/sda3
Found Ubuntu karmic (development branch) (9.10) on /dev/sda5
Found Linux Mint 7 Gloria - x64 Edition (7) on /dev/sda9
Found Ubuntu 8.04.1 (8.04) on /dev/sdb1
Found Ubuntu 9.04 (9.04) on /dev/sdb2
Found Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition (7) on /dev/sdb3
done
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$ apt-cache show os-prober Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <email address hidden> o/os-prober/ os-prober_ 1.32_amd64. deb f2f174f64536324 16
Package: os-prober
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 180
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.32
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/main/
Size: 20870
MD5sum: 0b861b394f23756
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