On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:29:07AM +0100, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 28.01.2014 16:16, Chris Bannister a écrit : > >On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:47:33AM +0100, > >berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote: > >>Thanks in advance for any hint about how to make me able to boot > >>windows anew. > > > >Is os-prober installed? > > > >-- > >"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the > >people > >who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the > >oppressing." --- Malcolm X > > It is, but does not seems to be able to detect windows. And since > this tool does have no manpage, I have no idea about how to have any > information about why. OK. Having a quick look around, /usr/bin/os-prober is a shell script, so finding out what it does shouldn't be TOO difficult. Indeed, after a minute or so of looking at what files it imports and such like, I found /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft (note: that's not a typo. os-probes, not os-prober). Taking a quick look at that file, the requirements appear to be: * Not running Grub-PC on an EFI machine (for that, you probably need grub-efi and set things up differently) * The partition must be ntfs or fat (various drivers supported) * There must be a "bootmgr" file and a boot directory * Each file in the boot directory is checked for "Windows 8", "Windows 7" etc and if found, you get a grub entry for that Logging for os-prober is done using the "logger" program, so check your syslog after running 'os-prober' to see if that gives any more clues.
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