[Bug 583782] Re: grub2 incorrectly detects windows OSs - this bad detection can lead to loss of ext4 partitions

[Phillip Susi]

10.04 has reached end of life and is no longer supported; are you still
seeing this on a currently supported release?


** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  grub2 incorrectly detects windows OSs - this bad detection can lead to
  loss of ext4 partitions

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  Grub2 detects 2 windows partitions for me, "Windows Vista" and
  "Windows Vista Recovery". The problem is that it got them the wrong
  way around! This has extremely nasty consequences as the Recovery
  automatically deletes all partitions that it does not understand -
  including ext4!

  Bad enough that it detects it incorrectly, Grub2 seems to provide no
  simple override for this behaviour.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: grub2 (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat May 22 00:38:21 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_NZ.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2

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