Re: [Bug 393565] [NEW] Windows 7 is detected as Windows Vista

2009-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
I'd love to be more precise here. Can you provide any information on telling the two apart? Right now, we treat any filesystem that contains /bootmgr and /boot/bcd as Windows Vista; I'd appreciate information on how to further distinguish Windows 7. Failing that, we could say "Windows Vista/7", bu

[Bug 393565] [NEW] Windows 7 is detected as Windows Vista

2009-06-29 Thread mattduckman
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: os-prober Running os-prober when I have Windows 7 installed gives this output: /dev/sda3:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain While the two are similar, I feel that this should be fixed for accuracy in grub. A source of confusion would be someone who h