The last time I dual-booted, which is a while ago, it was grub that keeps losing my windows boot option. Not sure what happened there, since I'm still a newbie at Linux.

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The OS_prober feature is disabled by default in GRUB 2.06, which is the version included in Ubuntu 22.04. This is an upstream change designed to counter potential security issues with the OS-detecting feature (it mounts partitions to check for other OSes, this could be taken advantage of, etc).

That's why. You need to enable the os_prober in your grub settings manually or put your windows line in /etc/default/grub or so.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yo, thanks for this. I'll save this for the next time I'm motivated enough to try dual-booting again. Currently I just care about playing games, so tinkering with it will have to wait.

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

You're welcome, I'm happy to point out the correct term to search for.

If you don't want to take care of stuff like this, you can choose a distro like Mint that would be more sensitive to shield their users from changes like this. There is plenty to learn and tinker without having to follow upstream news that could break your system.