Similar problem - triple boot system with XP SP3 Ubuntu 12.10 W8 RP (build 8400)
Ubuntu and XP are on the boot drive, but when W8 was installed on its own drive, it overwrote grub and installed Windows Boot Manager in the XP partition. I restored Grub2, then switched the XP paritition from WBM back to NTLDR using bootsect.exe /nt52 D: [from a W8 administrator System32\cmd.exe] However, grub-update still recognizes the XP partition as Windows 8 (loader), resulting in 2 such entries in the boot menu. One runs XP, one runs W8, but you have to remember which is which. It would be much cleaner if grub-update could read the volume/master boot code to figure out which is active, rather than "guessing" based on the presence (and contents) of bootmgr / ntldr files? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525643 Title: Grub2 detects Windows 7 when only Windows XP is installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/525643/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
