Bug 1053482

Summary:	Tumbleweed cannot be recognized by other distributions' grub.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Forgotten User lLb7rfVbj_ <forgotten_lLb7rfVbj_>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Current
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Description Forgotten User lLb7rfVbj_ 2017-08-11 18:14:45 UTC

The Tumbleweed installation cannot be found by other Distributions' grub or os-prober (tried with Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Fedora 26, Manjaro, Arch and Solus). In order to fix it, I needed to copy the file /usr/lib/os-release to /etc/lsb-release. Then the other dristributions can find the Tumbleweed installation.

Is it possible to rename /etc/os-release to /etc/lsb-release or create a 2nd link /etc/lsb-release (additional to /etc/os-release) which will points to /usr/lib/os-release as well?

Comment 1 Forgotten User lLb7rfVbj_ 2017-08-11 18:34:55 UTC

It turns out that the /etc/lsb-release file is irrelevant. I just needed to mount the Tumbleweed partition before I update grub. Why is this happening? I've used dozens of linux distributions and it's the first time that I'm seeing such a behavior...

Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal 2018-06-19 14:54:48 UTC

Sorry this bug slipped through and I can't reproduce it localy.

If you are still reproducing the issue please open a new ticket and detail your disk layout and order on your machine so we could find the culprit.