Ubuntu
os-prober package

20macosx missing on x86 architecture

Bug #353639 reported by Oleksij Rempel
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
os-prober (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

Currently os-prober missing 20macosx on i386 or amd64 architecture so Mac os X will be not detected.
To fix it just copy os-probes/mounted/powerpc/20macosx ot os-probes/mounted/x86

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

apt-cache policy os-prober
os-prober:
  Installiert: 1.29ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 1.29ubuntu1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 1.29ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package os-prober - 1.29ubuntu2

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os-prober (1.29ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Install Mac OS X probe on i386/amd64 too, although it will be marked as
    unsupported in grub-installer as AFAIK it can only be booted directly
    from EFI (LP: #353639).
  * Detect Acronis Secure Zone (thanks, Alexey Fisher; LP: #354334).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:49:23 +0100

Changed in os-prober (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Felix Zielcke (fzielcke) wrote :

Mac OS X can be booted now without EFI, Vladimir coded an efiemu which is included in the karmic grub2.
See http://grub.enbug.org/XNUSupport

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