Windows 7 is detected as Windows Vista
Bug #393565 reported by
Matt Drake
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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os-prober (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: os-prober
Running os-prober when I have Windows 7 installed gives this output:
/dev/sda3:Windows Vista (loader)
While the two are similar, I feel that this should be fixed for accuracy in grub. A source of confusion would be someone who had both Vista and 7 installed, and wasn't sure which entry was which.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 29 10:56:53 2009
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: os-prober 1.29ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: os-prober
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic i686
Changed in os-prober (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
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I'd love to be more precise here. Can you provide any information on
telling the two apart? Right now, we treat any filesystem that contains
/bootmgr and /boot/bcd as Windows Vista; I'd appreciate information on
how to further distinguish Windows 7.
Failing that, we could say "Windows Vista/7", but I'd rather not if it
isn't necessary.
status incomplete