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|    Jonathan N. Little to Paul    |
|    Re: why does Win sometimes not appear in    |
|    27 Feb 24 12:58:09    |
      From: lws4art@gmail.com              Paul wrote:       > You would likely want to check that the os-prober package was installed.       > I've had distros before, where that was one of the steps. So that's       > two things to check. If os-prober was entirely missing from a repository,       > that would be additional work. Sometimes, people forget to enable       > "universe" and "multiverse", which contain a lot more packages       > than the core ones do.                     I think you will find Ubuntu installs it by default. It is just disabled       in the default configuration of grub.              Here on a fresh install of 22.04 *Server* they even install it:              apt-cache policy os-prober       os-prober:        Installed: 1.79ubuntu2        Candidate: 1.79ubuntu2        Version table:        *** 1.79ubuntu2 500        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status              --       Take care,              Jonathan       -------------------       LITTLE WORKS STUDIO       http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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