Re: Does it matter that the squeeze installer...
On Monday 24 January 2011, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:28:28PM +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> > thinks that Window 7 is Windows Vista. I am installing an amd64 machine
> > which already has the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Professional on it, and
> > when I came to install Debian using the squeeze installer RC2 in the grub
> > bit it said that it had detected Windows Vista loader. I am not sure
> > this matters, but it might confuse the novice. If they are the same
> > then it should say Windows Vista or 7 loader.
>
> They are not the same and here os-prober successfully detected Win7 as
> "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sdb1)".
Well that is odd, because it is definitely Windows 7, but the Grub installer
said it was Vista and but on looking closer at /boot/grub/grub.cfg it has
put Window 7 as the description. Very odd. Must just be in the installer
string that gets displayed when it asks if it has detected all the OSs.
David
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