Bug#681221: os-prober: stopped finding Windows XP parition
Package: os-prober
Version: 1.54
Severity: normal
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.5.0-rc6+
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-rc6+
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc6+
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-rc6+
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-3-686-pae
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-686-pae
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
Found iPXE image: /boot/ipxe.lkrn
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found memtest86+ multiboot image: /boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin
umount: /var/lib/os-prober/mount: not mounted
umount: /var/lib/os-prober/mount: not mounted
done
Since a few days, os-prober suddenly fails at finding the Windows XP partition on this laptop, which results in GRUB2 missing a menu entry and thus in Windows XP being unaccessible.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (1001, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-rc6+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages os-prober depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-33
os-prober recommends no packages.
os-prober suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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