Package: os-prober Version: 1.56 Followup-For: Bug #534644
I had this problem for a while: os-prober does not recognize Windows (any version) when the Windows partition is mounted. And this is really annoying for someone who wants to share their files between two different OSes. I hope I am not wrong, but I think that this bug severity should be raised to "important", because anyone who needs os-prober (regardless of the fact that it comes by default with GRUB) because they have a dual boot system is likely to mount the other partition at some point. In that moment, if grub-update is launched (or triggered by APT - which is more likely), the OS in the mounted partition will disappear from the boot list (at least until update-grub is launched/triggered again with the OS partition not mounted.). I was able to reproduce this bug by launching os-prober from root with the mounted partitions, obtaining no output. After manually unmounting the partitions, os-prober returns the correct list. Then, I have mounted the partitions again (see below) and re-launched os-prober: claudio@Chuck:~$ sudo os-prober [sudo] password for claudio: /dev/sda1:Windows 8 (loader):Windows:chain claudio@Chuck:~$ sudo mount -a claudio@Chuck:~$ sudo os-prober claudio@Chuck:~$ -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (1001, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages os-prober depends on: ii libc6 2.13-37 os-prober recommends no packages. os-prober suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121127094303.10283.41532.reportbug@samba4.Chuck.local
