Bug#683770: installation-reports: when installing GRUB, says it can't find another operating system
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
When I got to the GRUB installation stage of my install, I got the
message: "It seems that this new installation is the only operating
system on this computer". But this is incorrect: Windows 7 is occupying
two primary NTFS partitions, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. sda1 is the
SYSTEM_DRV volume, and sda2 is Windows.
Not sure why from reading syslog. If I mount /dev/sda2 on /mnt and run
"/usr/lib/os-probse/mounted/20microsoft /dev/sd2 /mnt ntfs", it prints:
/dev/sda2:Windows Vista (loader):Windows1:chain
I went ahead and install GRUB an the MBR, and found that /dev/sda1 and
/dev/sda2 were both added to the GRUB menu as bootable Windows
partitions (and booting them works). (Probably only /dev/sda1 should
have been added because including both is redundant, but that's a
detail.)
I am reporting the bug from a different computer, but I don't think the
hardware matters.
Andrew
Boot method: network
Image version: Wheezy Alpha1 (http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/ as of 2012-08-02)
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