Windows Vista won't boot after new install of Ubuntu 10.04

Bug #576915 reported by Karl
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub2 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: grub

After a complete new install of Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit, Windows Vista failed to boot from the Grub menu. When I tried to boot to Vista from the Grub menu I got the recovery partition for Windows Vista which came pre-installed on this laptop. When I researched the problem I found that Grub had switched the menu title of the Vista Recovery partition on /dev/sda1/ with the menu title of the Vista Loader partition on /dev/sda2/ so that the Vista Recovery entry on the Grub menu booted to the Vista Loader and the Vista Loader entry on the Grub menu booted to Vista Recovery. I can still boot to Vista normally; only the entry titles have been switched. I don't need a solution to this problem. I am only reporting it in order to save others from the heartbreak of a completely unnecessary experience trying to repair the Vista mbr.

The version of grub that I am using is grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu5.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: grub (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 7 13:17:49 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
affects: grub (Ubuntu) → grub2 (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
dino99 (9d9) wrote :

outdated/deprecated version which has reached EOL does not get support

Changed in grub2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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