PSA about update

[herbie]

Just a word to the wise that after I installed, hadn’t been running Endeavor for a while, all went well.
Then did the monumental update.
Rebooted and lo and behold ONLY Endeavor was listed.
Had to install os-prober andf add DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false.

I went on the Arch forum as well and complained to the effect, "What rocket scientist decided to remove OS-Prober.

I know Arch thinks is the Highlander, There can be only one, but the move was dumb.
Since Endeavor mirrors Arch I thought I’d post this.
Water under the bridge probably.
Anyway maybe the devs could look into it or not.

Regards
Herbie

[Kresimir]

I think it makes sense that OS Prober was removed. I don’t dual boot, so having it is just a waste. If you do dual boot, then setup your system accordingly yourself.

The default should be no dual boot.

[dalto]

As I understand it, the change was actually made upstream, by the developers of grub. I haven’t been following it that closely though.

[keybreak]

And it’s now a security risk to have anything to do with Win10+ even in dual-boot, because of Windoze’s ability to access Linux file systems since WSL 2.

To hell with Windoze spyware crap!

[dalto]

You know that dual-booting isn’t only for Windows…

[keybreak]

True that, but that’s very rare cases

[Kresimir]

For the most part, it is… Dual-boot machines without windoze are the exception, not the norm. It is certainly not prevalent enough to be a reason to keep the OS Prober as a default.

[dalto]

@Kresimir

For the most part, it is… Dual-boot machines without windoze are the exception, not the norm.

In the broader world, you are almost definitely correct. Among the Linux enthusiasts who frequent this forum, I am not sure that is true…

@Kresimir

It is certainly not prevalent enough to be a reason to keep the OS Prober as a default.

To be 100% clear, I am not advocating that it should or shouldn’t be on by default. In fact, my preference would be that os-prober be disabled by default. That being said, I rarely use grub so I don’t really care much either way. I am also not one to get overly hung-up on defaults. As long as things like that are easy to change, set the default however and we can change it.

[jonathon]

@herbie

hadn’t been running Endeavor for a while

Quite a while - this has been posted about three times since April!

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

edit /etc/default/grub add or uncomment GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false save that file then run sudo update-grub or sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

OS Prober no longer ran by default as of today's update of grub

If you dual boot and use GRUB, you have to follow the solution in this thread: or you will have to use BIOS boot options to switch OS.

GRUB does not show other installed OS after EndeavourOS installation

I am new to Endeavor and new to bspwm. I just installed Endeavor. When I reboot my grub menu only shows endeavor (sda1) and not my Opensuse installation (sda2). What do I need to do to fix this and why did this happen? Thanks!!

[Stephane]

just search boothole grub 2021 and git grub savannah

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@Stephane

boothole

Ain’t it my favorite vulnerability name?!

[herbie]

And you know it’s rare how?
I don’t get all this, “if I don’t use it then no one else should.”
I thought Linux was about freedom and we decide to do, not the Dev’s.
Gnome pulls the same crap.
Anyway, no need to respond anymore as I am now just gonna run Debian.

[dalto]

@herbie

I thought Linux was about freedom and we decide to do, not the Dev’s.

Umm…you still can decide. It was just a default that changed. Why is this even a big deal? If you want to use os-prober you still can. If you don’t, that is fine too. How can more choice than that be offered?

[ricklinux]

Not in my case I triple boot EOS! I guess I’m rare!