I've had the same problem as Davide et al.
I suspect that the Ubuntu installation is also at fault for the fatal
end result, chosing a DOS Extended partition as a logical partition to
contain Linux root and swap. The problem is that DOS expressly limits
this partition type (hex 05) to 8 GB, and D
A friend of mine has the same problem with an Acer M460, which has a
type 12 partition (recovery) as /dev/sda1, which is deemed to be
"Windows Vista (loader)" by os-prober; instead, Windows's loader is in
/dev/sda2, which os-prober names "Windows Vista recovery". It should be
the opposite.
Moreove
I have a Lenovo T61p with Windows XP on it. It also has a type 12 partition; I
believe it contains some "rescue" data. If I try to boot that partion, I get a
message like "Starting MS-DOS", and then it hangs. My work around has been to
add this to 30_os-prober in the "chain)" case:
if [ "$
Hello. I have a friend of mine who has the same bug in grub, and I was
searching for a solution. I don't know if this behaviour is caused from this
"Compaq diagnostics" (in grub saved as "Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)"), but
when I choose a different operating system there are some problems in
We have not changed installer code with respect to this bug, so it
should remain open.
** Changed in: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Triaged
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grub entry added for "Compaq diagnostics" partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48068
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I do think if a partition is boo
