os-prober is disabled in grub 2.06 and where to go from here

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2021-12-17 17:01, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Hi ubuntu-devel,
> 
> os-prober is disabled with the grub 2.06 upload, which is
> obviously a bit controversial and the outcome is not
> necessarily in the best interest of our users.

My understanding is that the result from this discussion is this commit:

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/grub/+git/ubuntu/commit/?id=533c36f6

I have no objection to that measure, but as someone who always have 
multiple installs in different partitions, I find that the information 
to users of new installs leaves a bit to be desired.

I see this message:

> Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable
> partitions.
> Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration.
> Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry.

Maybe I'm stupid, but TBH — and even if I'm aware of the upstream change 
— I don't understand which documentation it talks about. If others agree 
that it's not crystal clear, maybe we could improve the message a little?

-- 
Cheers,

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj