Re: Bug#496981: Case sensitive path name in windows based installer
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:32:19PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:39:56AM +0100, peter green wrote:
> > mailthrottle-2708@yahoo.it wrote:
> > >I run the windows based installer but after reboot grub won't boot and
> > >shown his prompt.
> > >
> > >After a little investigation I discovered grub was asked to look for image
> > >files to load from a "debian" directory in the Windows disk but they were
> > >in "Debian" directory instead.
> > >This probably happened because there was already a "Debian" directory on
> > >that disk created by me for some reasons in the past. The windows based
> > >installer program then copied image files to that directory without being
> > >aware it was already existing but was having a different case in his name.
> > >
> > >To solve the problem I booted into Windows then renamed the "Debian"
> > >directory to "debian" using the Windows file manager, then I rebooted the
> > >system the installation process started and completed successfully.
> > >
> > It seems like the proper way to fix this is to find out from windows
> > what the file is actually called (including case) and use that
> > information when writing the grub config. Maybe GetLongPathName will do
> > what is required.
>
> Sounds fine, although I'd prefer if you can use NSIS for that, since accessing
> win32 API from the script is quite ugly.
Oh, and it seems GetLongPathName is not available on win95 or nt4.
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