[sf-lug] problem with Grub

Bobbie Sellers bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com
Wed Jan 12 07:58:16 PST 2022


Hi LUGers,

Looking for items for my column in Status Register.
I found the following information at this site about the
supposedly new features Jammy Jellyfish Ubuntu 22.04
will add.
  <https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-22-04-release-features/>


> Grub 2.06 and the trouble that comes with it
> 
> Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will have Grub bootloader version 2.06 but there is a
>  problem with it. It has os-prober feature disabled by default.
> 
> This means that if you are on a dual boot system, Gv> rub won’t probe for 
>   other operating systems and thus it won’t list Windows (or other OS) in Grub.
>  A few people, who upgraded to the development version of Ubuntu 22.04, 
> have already started facing this issue.

So dual boot users might want to watch out for this.

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