os-prober does not detect Windows if there is a /boot folder in the Windows partition
Bug #796531 reported by
YannUbuntu
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| os-prober |
Fix Released
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| os-prober (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: grub2
If the Windows partition contains a /boot/grub/core.img folder (due to a previous installation of GRUB, mistaken or not ), os-prober won't detect Windows any more.
I believe this is due to the fact that there are 2 folders with similar names ("/Boot" and "/boot"), so os-prober just sees the /boot folder instead of the /Boot or /BOOT folder coming with Windows)
Bug confirmed on GRUB 1.98.
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| affects: | grub2 (Ubuntu) → os-prober (Ubuntu) |
Revision history for this message
| Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in os-prober (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| tags: | added: udd-find |
| Changed in os-prober: | |
| status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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os-prober (1.48) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Depend on grub-mount-udeb (see changelog for 1.45).
* item_in_dir: return 1 immediately if second argument is not a directory
(thanks, Daniel Richard G.; LP: #798447).
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* add MeeGo detection support; thanks to Chengwei Yang
<email address hidden> for the patch.
* Fix Windows detection when there are more then one boot directories
(e.g boot and Boot). Closes: #634649.
-- Otavio Salvador <email address hidden> Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:46:13 +0200