os-prober detects HP's recovery environment as Windows Vista (loader)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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os-prober (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have an HP laptop where Windows Vista came preinstalled. It has a recovery partition. But that partition is detected as Windows Vista (loader) instead of Windows Recovery Environment.
The partition's label is HP_RECOVERY. On Windows only one file is visible on the partition, called HP_RECOVERY, but if I mount it on Linux, all of the partition's content is visible. When mounted on Linux (udisks --mount /dev/sda4) it looks like a normal recovery environment, with folders such as boot, HP_RECOVERY and Windows.
Using Quantal's os-prober didn't change anything.
$ sudo os-prober
/dev/sda1:Windows Vista (loader)
/dev/sda4:Windows Vista (loader)
On sda1 I have my Windows, sda4 (originally it was sda2) is the recovery partition.
I know that there are also Windows 7 users who have a recovery partition that's detected as a Vista loader.
description: | updated |
Changed in os-prober (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
no longer affects: | os-prober (Debian) |
That Debian bug is a different one. It is about Windows XP recovery partition that Grub fails to boot. Mine is Vista and it boots fine.