F16 Grub2 not including windows

[Tom H]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:07 AM, David Lehman <dlehman at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 07:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 08/26/2011 10:01 PM, David Lehman wrote:
>> >
>> > We added code to automatically generate entries using os-prober, but
>> > apparently os-prober is not available if you install from DVD without
>> > enabling network repos. It's probably also unavailable if doing a live
>> > install. We'll be working on rectifying this.
>>
>> Does this transparently detect other Linux distributions?  If so,  that
>> needs testing and definitely worth highlighting in the documentation
>
> It should find other linux distributions. I expect there to be issues
> with the kernel command line arguments which will probably require some
> upstream grub2 work to get sorted out.

I think that os-prober picks up grub.conf/menu.lst or grub.cfg
entries, if they exist, on the partitions that it probes.

I once landed through Google on a grub-devel post where one of the
grub developers said that os-prober wasn't a grub program but a
debian-boot one.