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  1. March 9th, 2013 #1
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    Question How To Disable Ubuntu OS Probing and GRUB (multiboot)?

    Hi All,

    Ubuntu's OS Prober may not pick up Fedora 17 or Fedora 18 on miltiboot systems (there's an open bug report). Apparently Fedora changed something in initrd that has upset Ubuntu's prober which causes grub to drop menu entries. When GRUB is modified with Ubuntu's version, the F17 and F18 versions do not show as a boot selection (this seems to be a separate Ubuntu problem). Though reported in August 2012 (9 months ago), its still not fixed.

    I want to disable Ubunut's OS Prober and updating of GRUB since Fedora picks up all the OSes. How do I disable Ubuntu's boot related stuff, such as its OS Prober and GRUB?

    Since this is a test system that multiboots, I need Ubuntu's update process to still work on 3 flavors of Ubuntu (11.10, 12.04, and 12.10). (The system also has two Windows hosts and two BSD hosts).

    Thanks in advance,
    Jeff.
    Last edited by noloader; March 9th, 2013 at 07:28 AM. Reason: Removed some irrelevant details
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