Interesting. After upgrading from W7 to W8.1, I had 'Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)'. However, After installing W10 Tech Preview 10130 and upgrading to the actual release, I have 'Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)'
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Andre Robatino <robat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Chris Murphy <lists <at> colorremedies.com> writes: > >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Andre Robatino >> <robatino <at> fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> > I have a BIOS machine which is dual boot Windows 7/Fedora 22. I just >> > upgraded Windows from 7 to 10, but grub2 still detects it as "Windows 7 >> > (loader)", same as before, even after running "grub2-install /dev/sda" and >> > "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" in F22. Other than the mislabel, >> > everything seems fine. Is it normal for grub2 to not detect the correct >> > Windows version? What about Windows 8, which has been around for a while? >> >> I'm pretty sure this is hard coded in GRUB. There is nothing that GRUB >> finds that identifies the version. Perhaps the most appropriate thing >> is to get a patch that just says "Microsoft Windows" to upstream. > > I have two other BIOS machines that are also dual-boot Windows and F22 (one > is XP and the other is Vista) and grub2 detects them correctly as "Microsoft > Windows XP Home Edition" and "Windows Vista (loader)", resp. I don't know if > something changed in Windows 8 and later, or if it has to do with my W10 > machine being an upgrade from W7, as opposed to the clean install I normally > do. (I could clean install it, since W10 should reactivate automatically, > but it's not worth the trouble for now.) > > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
