Pierre, I provide only workaround for bugs, I don't fix. 1) Grub detecting only recovery partition is a bug. 2) Yes, quite all preinstalled PC come now with a recovery partition and a main windows partition. 3) If you need to change active partition, you can boot on Ubuntu Live CD, use Gparted and change flag via GUI. But usually you don't have to reinstall Windows. It were the error I did before. 4) No, Grub have to properly detect current configuration.
It seems that there is a lot of unmanaged bugs for Grub2 package. I presume there is not enough people on the subject. And for the moment, I have not yet contact with Ubuntu Grub maintainer. As this bug report is confused, I presume it will not be managed. I proposed you to raise a new bug, about detection of partition by Ubuntu Live CD session. This is a very formalized case, which make easy reproduction of problem. I hope than in this case, you will be asked to provide signature of your MBR and NTFS disks, and to check a new version of Grub2. For the moment, I simply try to master all aspect of installation and boot process to fix user's problem and it's a big job. I don't forecast to enter inside code. The guy who is active on subject is Collin Watson, on the bug side of site. -- CRITICAL GRUB2 ISSUE: Fails to Detect Vista Main Partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646030 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
