Bug#492964: grub-pc: cross install Windows: "invalid identifier"

Felix Zielcke fzielcke at z-51.de
Wed Aug 13 07:04:09 UTC 2008


Am Mittwoch, den 30.07.2008, 11:20 +0200 schrieb Sladan:

> I did "grub-install sda" and selecting Windows in the Grub2 menu returns "invalid identifier".

I really don't know what I should do with your report.
Maybe you can reproduce this and tell us when exactly that is shown?

> In the console it says root=hd1,2 when Linux works. It's root=hd1,3 after trying the Windows entry.
> 

> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
> menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (on /dev/sda3)" {
> 	set root=(hd1,3)
> 	chainloader +1
> }

I think this is with intent.
Normally the chainloader command should never return, i.e. should
suceed.






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