It is os-prober, but it ran more than once with no errors, but access to load the XP partition afterwards failed.
On 10 Apr 2012 at 0:12, Jordan Uggla wrote: From: Jordan Uggla <[email protected]> Date sent: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:12:06 -0700 Subject: Re: Issue with grub2-mkconfig To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]> Copies to: [email protected] > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Michael D. Setzer II > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've noticed an issue with at least Fedora 16's grub2-mkconfig. > > > > I have systems that have an XP partition on /dev/sda1 and have > > noticed two issues. > > > > 1. After running grub2-mkconfig once, it works fine, and creates the > > grub.cfg correct, but if one runs it again, it fails to find the > > windows? 2. After running grub2-mkconfig once, the windows partition > > can not be mounted as it says it is busy, but is not mounted? > > This sounds like a bug in os-prober, which grub-mkconfig uses to > detect other OSs but is actually a separate project (part of the > Debian boot project). Try booting and running "os-prober" twice, the > second invocation will probably fail and you will again not be able to > mount your Windows partition. If that's the case, please file a bug > report with Debian boot. > > -- > Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 12054591.582602 | EINSTEIN 7652086.299852 ROSETTA 4407491.272081 | ABC 12212118.208328 _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
