skips /dev/sda

[mmlb]

Binary package hint: os-prober

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

apt-cache policy os-prober
os-prober:
  Installed: 1.35
  Candidate: 1.35
  Version table:
 *** 1.35 0
        500 http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected os-prober to search all my hard drives for bootable partitions

os-prober seems to not check /dev/sda the disk that has Ubuntu, Windows XP, and the boot loader.

So os-prober would originally detect and install Windows just fine. Did an update a couple of days ago, and just noticed that I couldn't boot into Windows. I have had this problem before, and it only got so annoying now that I am filling a bug.

I edited /usr/bin/os-prober with the following that starts on line # 105:

for partition in $(partitions); do
    echo $partition #<------------- This was me
    if ! mapped=$(mapdevfs $partition); then
        log "Device '$partition' does not exist; skipping"
        continue
    fi

When I ran `sudo os-prober` I get
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
/dev/sdc1

Later I hard coded `echo /dev/sda1` in the function partions() and all is right with the world, sort of....

[Sven Roederer (sven-roederer)]

Same here with "/dev/sda1" & "/dev/sda2" (Bug #662242) and hardcoding also fixes it.