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Bug 477312 - sys-boot/os-prober-1.62 version bump request - adds EFI support
Summary: sys-boot/os-prober-1.62 version bump request - adds EFI support
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Ai Locke Shinseiko (Wizzleby)
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Blocks: 477314
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Reported: 2013-07-18 15:36 UTC by Ben Kohler
Modified: 2013-07-18 16:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
ebuild bump patch (os-prober-ebuild-bump.patch,425 bytes, patch)
2013-07-18 15:36 UTC, Ben Kohler
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Description Ben Kohler gentoo-dev 2013-07-18 15:36:09 UTC
Created attachment 353594 [details, diff]
ebuild bump patch

Versions of os-prober >=1.58 add EFI support, to detect MS windows bootloader & elilo on the EFI system partition, commit is here:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/os-prober.git;a=commit;h=27b6da60440ab6b6b11e63621fabee482dbb6cbf

It would be great to just bump to the latest version 1.62 that includes additional fixes, I have attached an ebuild diff that makes sure the new efi/ subdir is installed.  There may be a cleaner way to integrate this into the existing install logic, but this change does work here.

With this bump, now I get:

# os-prober
  /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
  Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
  Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel.
  No volume groups found
/dev/sda1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi
#

And we just need a minor patch to grub-2.00 to get this fully integrated there.
Comment 1 Maxim Koltsov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-07-18 16:34:04 UTC
Bumped adding support for EFI, thanks.