[Bug 1095223] [NEW] Fedora partition needs to be mounted for an update-grub to discover it

2013-01-01 Thread Mike Voegele
Public bug reported: I installed Fedora 18 beta in a separate partition beside Ubuntu 12.10 and Win7. As Fedora also installed a bootloader, I used boot-repair in Ubuntu to have it set back to grub2. In Ubuntu, the Fedora partition is usually not mounted. When I do an update-grub or when this is

[Bug 1072794] Re: Win partition needs to be mounted for an update-grub to discover it

2012-10-31 Thread Mike Voegele
No, I do not agree, it is a different bug. i do the following with started ubuntu12.10: A - win partition not mounted - update-grub - result: no win entry present in generated /boot/grub/grub.cfg. also the log during update-grub doesn't show anything. B - mount win partition - update-grub -

[Bug 1072794] Re: Win partition needs to be mounted for an update-grub to discover it

2012-10-31 Thread Mike Voegele
You are right, I zeroed out the LDM headers as you suggested, then update-grub creates a correct insmod part_msdos win entry, with the win partition not mounted. Thanks a lot for your work and for correcting the ldm bug :-). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1072794] [NEW] Win partition needs to be mounted for an update-grub to discover it

2012-10-29 Thread Mike Voegele
Public bug reported: Compared to grub 1.99, the win7 partition needs to be be mounted in order for grub 2 os-prober to detect it. update-grub does not detect win7 when partition is not mounted, this was different with 1.99. pls see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1053793 **

[Bug 1053793] Re: warning: this LDM has no Embedding Partition; embedding won't be possible

2012-10-29 Thread Mike Voegele
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1061255 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061255 I created a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1072794. I installed BURG, thanks for the tip, it works out of the box, and is even nice! So also GRUB before 2.0 would work.

[Bug 1053793] Re: warning: this LDM has no Embedding Partition; embedding won't be possible

2012-10-28 Thread Mike Voegele
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1061255 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061255 I cannot get dual boot running with ubuntu 12.10 and windows 7. I spent a lot of time trying to get it work, without success. With boot repair, I get either windows 7 running by repairing MBR, or ubuntu