[SOLVED]LiloSetup / os-prober

[mimosa]

OK, I actually uninstalled it to be sure then installed with spkg. Same behaviour, no problems. I actually took the risk of using it to change the configuration - if I can't boot back into my installation, I'll try and find a way to let you guys know!

[Akuna]

Well, the only thing that lilosetup needed os-prober for was to detect the available booting partitions that are in the system and get some infos about them.
If the new LiloSetup shows all your available booting partitions, then that means that it does a correct job by itself. It still needs to refine its detection of the OS that are in the booting partitions, but that is a mere detail. For the rest, nothing should have changed (yet).

[mimosa]

I have two machines with 13.1 and maybe even 13.0 - let me know if you'd like me to test the new prototype on them. As you may guess, I don't use them much, but it's no problem to do a test.

[mimosa]

Fine on 13.1, as was os-prober.

[Akuna]

Great! Tx for the testing

[franksalix]

I am using Salix 13.37 XFCE on an old Dell Inspiron 6000. The provided Lilosetup used to crash my machine but Witek's version has worked fine for me.
Unfortunately the update process wants to replace Witeks version. How do I stop it doing that?

[witek]

Unfortunately the update process wants to replace Witeks version. How do I stop it doing that?

Of course you mean Akuna`s version, not mine In order to suppress the update edit /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc and find this:

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# Exclude package names and expressions.
# To exclude pre and beta packages, add this to the exclude:
#   [0-9\_\.\-]{1}pre[0-9\-\.\-]{1}
EXCLUDE=^aaa_elflibs,^aaa_base,^devs,^glibc-.*,^kernel-.*,^udev,^rootuser-settings,^zzz-settings,.*-[0-9]+dl$,-x86_64-


then add ^lilosetup* at the end of the line of exluded files

[Akuna]

I'd like to refine the detection of the OS's in the boot partitions a bit more and then I'll update the package on the repo.

[franksalix]

Re: LiloSetup / os-prober

Postby witek » 11. Jul 2011, 18:58

franksalix wrote:Unfortunately the update process wants to replace Witeks version. How do I stop it doing that?



Of course you mean Akuna`s version, not mine In order to suppress the update edit /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc and find this:

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# Exclude package names and expressions.
# To exclude pre and beta packages, add this to the exclude:
# [0-9\_\.\-]{1}pre[0-9\-\.\-]{1}
EXCLUDE=^aaa_elflibs,^aaa_base,^devs,^glibc-.*,^kernel-.*,^udev,^rootuser-settings,^zzz-settings,.*-[0-9]+dl$,-x86_64-



then add ^lilosetup* at the end of the line of exluded files

Thanks, Witek - that did the trick and apologies to Akuna

[Akuna]

apologies to Akuna

No problem

I just submitted the final version for repo inclusion.

You can already grab it from here:
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/livetoo ... h-1plb.txz
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/livetoo ... h-1plb.md5
http://people.salixos.org/akuna/livetoo ... /ChangeLog

From this version on, os-prober is not a dependency of LiloSetup anymore.

The matter is solved as far as LiloSetup is concerned. If necessary a separate thread for os-prober problem could be started separately.