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Bug#683770: installation-reports: when installing GRUB, says it can't find another operating system



On Fri, Aug  3, 2012 at 10:49:01 -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote:

> 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.
> 
Care to send the syslog?

Cheers,
Julien

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