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GRUB documentation states:
GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST
List of space-separated FS UUIDs of filesystems to be ignored from
os-prober output. For efi chainloaders it’s <UUID>@<EFI FILE>
But the actual behaviour does not match this description.
GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST="<UUID>"
does nothing. In order to skip non-EFI bootloaders, you must set
GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST="<UUID>@<DEVICE>"
which is both absurd, <UUID> and <DEVICE> are redundant, and wrong,
<DEVICE> such as /dev/sd* may not be persistent across boots.
Also, any non-word character is accepted as a separator, including "-"
and "@" which may be present in UUIDs. This can cause false positives
because of partial UUID match.
This patch fixes these flaws while retaining some backward compatibility
with previous behaviour which may be expected by existing setups:
- also accept <UUID>@/dev/* (with warning) for non-EFI bootloaders,
- also accept comma and semicolon as separator.
Fixes: 55e706c9 (Add GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST to selectively skipping systems)
Signed-off-by: Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
All executable files in this directory are processed in shell expansion order. 00_*: Reserved for 00_header. 10_*: Native boot entries. 20_*: Third party apps (e.g. memtest86+). The number namespace in-between is configurable by system installer and/or administrator. For example, you can add an entry to boot another OS as 01_otheros, 11_otheros, etc, depending on the position you want it to occupy in the menu; and then adjust the default setting via /etc/default/grub.