so if it finds it empty, it doesn't consider it an OS. So when I run os-prober from either distro, the other one is not detected. AFAIK os-prober does not look into /boot, it looks for specific files in/lib and /etc (with an issue with separate merged /usr). Onlylinux-boot-p...
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OS Prober is a feature in Grub that shows selection screen while booting the computer and laptop system. This is actually useful feature if you install multiple OS in same system. If you are multi-booting with other Linux distributions, and dual booting with Windows, you might find an issue;...
One point. If the windows partition does not extend to the end, then upon remaking EFI and MSR partitions, they are placed after the windows partition which I am not sure if it would work. One has to add the OFFSET flag to create partition. For MSR the offset should be 101*1024 = 1...
I'm dual booting two distros that mount ESP as /boot instead of /boot/efi. It seems to me that os-prober works by checking every partition for /boot, and so if it finds it empty, it doesn't consider it an OS. So when I run os-prober from either distro, the other one is not...