Bug#651106: grub-pc: Windows XP partition assigned wrong root partition

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Thu Dec 8 06:39:31 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 20:44 +0000, Chris Carr wrote:
> Many thanks Ian - apologies for my lack of understanding. This bug isn't
> in grub, as update-grub is simply re-using the incorrect 30_otheros
> every time. Is it ok to reassign it to os-prober, or do I need to do
> some more testing first? Perhaps it's best to close it, and then reopen
> it if I see the bug reappear on another install? (As I said in my first
> post, it's been around for a year or two, so may well have been fixed in
> d-i)

I'm not maintainer of either package, just an interested observer.

I think that if you can't repro then it would be best to close but you
don't necessarily need to reinstall to repro -- perhaps just running
os-prober by hand would do the trick?

Ian.

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Ian Campbell


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