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On 10/3/15, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 05:54:20AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>>Package: os-prober
>>Version: 1.67
>>Severity: important
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> Hi Shirish,
Hi Steve,
> Could you explain in a little more detail what you've seen please?
> What exactly do you mean when you say that it's corrupting the Windows
> 7 loader? What's the setup you're using on your machines (hardware,
> disk layout etc.)?
Thank you for taking time to respond to this bug.
What do I mean by it's corrupting the Windows 7 loader is that it
doesn't boot into MS-Windows. I had installed MS-Windows after
installing Debian (I know that is the wrong way to do it).
Of course, once MS-Windows comes in, it hogs the boot-loader and grub
is nowhere to be found
So then I used a live usb using GRML as a rescue option.
I used lsblk to see how all the partitions were.
Figured out that /dev/sda2 is the one which has the GNU/Linux
partition (I had mapped it before but still was good to know it still
was showing the same.)
Then mounted /dev/sda2 to a mount point
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
and then installed grub to the MBR
#grub-install --root-directory= /mnt /dev/sda
got the familiar boot screen with the correct version of grub showing
on the grub screen but no MS-Windows 7
Then installed os-prober . While it did find Windows 7 and put the
menu entry, trying to use it is worthless, I get some corrupting image
and then it fails to find some files.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 9.4M 1.5G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 92G 18G 70G 20% /
tmpfs 3.8G 152K 3.8G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3 110G 89G 17G 85% /home
tmpfs 769M 4.0K 769M 1% /run/user/119
tmpfs 769M 32K 769M 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda4 260G 38G 222G 15% /media/shirish/alphanumeric-label
This is on a Thinkpad T-440, 500 GB , 8 GB RAM
Is there anything else I can help so that I am able to find a solution to this.
This is/was just to test the readiness of the tool as I have to
migrate a bunch of similar lappies in dual-boot mode.
Look forward for answers.
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.
> st...@einval.com
> We don't need no education.
> We don't need no thought control.
>
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