Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode

From	Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode
Date	2021-12-02 17:00 +0100
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On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 13:52 +0100, Christian Britz wrote:
> 
> Am 02.12.21 um 09:26 schrieb Joe:
> > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 23:44:47 +0100
> > Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Joe wrote:
> > > > measure. If grub is installed correctly, both OSes should appear on
> > > > its menu.  
> > > 
> > > IIRC, you have to install package os-prober to achieve that.
> > > 
> > 
> > Is that how the installer behaves now? It really doesn't care whether
> > there are other OSes installed already?
> 
> To be honest, I don't know exactly what the installer does, if it finds
> another OS.

How would it do that? Detecting other OS's is what the os-prober
package is for. On my machines, os-prober is installed and I always
install to an empty disks and no other disk present apart from the
Debian installer on a USB stick.

>  Maybe it installs os-prober automatically then.
> In my case, I installed Windows later, and I am almost sure that I had
> to  install os-prober manually.

The grub-common package Recommends os-prober, so I would have thought
it would be installed automatically by the installer, unless you've
taken special measures to tell it not to install recommended packages.

-- 
Tixy

Thread

Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode frantal@libero.it - 2021-12-01 18:20 +0100
  Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-12-01 18:30 +0100
  Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-12-01 19:10 +0100
    Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-12-01 19:20 +0100
      Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-12-02 09:10 +0100
    Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-12-01 23:50 +0100
      Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-12-02 09:30 +0100
        Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-12-02 14:00 +0100
          Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-12-02 17:00 +0100
            Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-12-02 17:10 +0100
              Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-12-02 20:40 +0100
                Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-02 21:30 +0100
                Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-12-02 23:10 +0100
                Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-03 04:00 +0100
  Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-12-02 10:00 +0100
    Re: Double boot (Windows & Debian) with UEFI mode David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-12-03 04:00 +0100

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