[Bug 1022064] Re: os-prober detects HP's recovery environment as Windows Vista (loader)

[Logan Rosen]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #258914
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258914

** Also affects: os-prober (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258914
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  os-prober detects HP's recovery environment as Windows Vista (loader)

Status in “os-prober” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “os-prober” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  I have an HP laptop where Windows Vista came preinstalled. It has a
  recovery partition. But that partition is detected as Windows Vista
  (loader) instead of Windows Recovery Environment.

  The partition's label is HP_RECOVERY. On Windows only one file is
  visible on the partition, called HP_RECOVERY, but if I mount it on
  Linux, all of the partition's content is visible. When mounted on
  Linux (udisks --mount /dev/sda4) it looks like a normal recovery
  environment, with folders such as boot, HP_RECOVERY and Windows.

  Using Quantal's os-prober didn't change anything.

  $ sudo os-prober
  /dev/sda1:Windows Vista (loader):Windows:chain
  /dev/sda4:Windows Vista (loader):Windows1:chain

  On sda1 I have my Windows, sda4 (originally it was sda2) is the
  recovery partition.

  I know that there are also Windows 7 users who have a recovery
  partition that's detected as a Vista loader.

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