Re: Does it matter that the squeeze installer...

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:11:47PM +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> 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.

Please file a bug about this, if there is none already.


Thanks,

Michael