Re: [d-i daily 040528] Issue with OS detection

[Andree Leidenfrost <aleidenf@bigpond.net.au>]

Hi Joey

Just for the record, I've done another installation using the Sarge
daily netinst image from 05 June 2004.

The result is the same as before: if the win98 partition (fat32) is
mounted, the GRUB configuration doesn't find the win98 installation; if
it is not mounted everything works as expected. I have even reinstalled
win98 just to make sure.

Cheers
Andree

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 00:04, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 22:28, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> > > Was the w2k partition NTFS or FAT32?
> > > 
> > > Mine is a FAT32 win98 partition. Partman mounts this just fine. If I do
> > > this, however, the described problem occurs.
> > 
> > This was a ntfs partition. It does show that the code works though and
> > there is no difference how the partition is mounted.
> 
> Right. I've just done a reinstall of sarge. I've even redownloaded the
> installation CD
> (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040528/sarge-i386-netinst.iso)
> 
> This time, I also tried manually mounting the windows partition both as
> /target/windows and /target/banana while the base system installation
> was running. The result is the same as with mounting via partman: GRUB
> configuration says that there doesn't seem to be another OS installed.
> Again, not mounting anything works as expected.
> 
> Are you sure that this is not a FAT32 versus NTFS issue?
> 
> If there are still no new findings next weekend, I might try to
> reinstall win98 from scratch and see whether that makes a difference.
> However, it would probably be useful to get another independent report
> about a FAT32-based windows installation. (Best would probably be
> win9x/ME although win2k with FAT32 might be interesting as well...)
> 
> Cheers
> Andree
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Andree Leidenfrost
Sydney - Australia