Doesn't differentiate between windows installs

[narnie]

Binary package hint: os-prober

I have installed karmic on several different machines of late. I have noticed that os-prober setting up the new grub.cfg file identifies windows as below:
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# sudo os-prober
/dev/sda2:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain
/dev/sda3:Windows Vista (loader):Windows1:chain
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This results in a grub menu list that doesn't differentiate between the recovery partion (/dev/sda2) the the main usable partition (/dev/sda3).

On my sister's machine, this resulting in "reinstalling" windows and, of course, writting over the boot loader. No problem if I weren't 5 hrs away from her :)

I hand, coded a sed routine that changes this for future installs so that it identifies and tags sda2 not to run and sda3 to run for normal windows (but this will vary from machine to machine, so needs per-machine customization).

In previous version of Ubuntu, it accurately identified recovery vs normal partitions.

This needs to be brought back in future versions. For Linux noobs and young kids, it can cause too much trouble NOT to have it accurately identified (not to mention the need for an improvement in the ability to password-protect--with encryption--the grub menu and make it easier to do this for the people who don't do command line -- read, make the startup-menu program as good as it was in previous versions). Perhaps it wasn't a good idea switch to grub2 until it was further alone.

WIth thanks,
Narnie

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

This looks like a duplicate of bug #476625.