[Bug 646030] Re: CRITICAL GRUB2 ISSUE: Fails to Detect Vista Main Partition

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  CRITICAL GRUB2 ISSUE: Fails to Detect Vista Main Partition

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  Grub does not detect all partitions possibly because a system has both
  a rescue partition and a main partition for Windows.  Happened to me
  on 2 Vista machines.  Reinsalling Vista did not fix the problem (did
  not rewrite MBR).  Also tried to reinstall GRUB and update it without
  success.  Also tried and failed with the Vista bootrec commands.

  For newbies and many Linux users, this is a worst case horror
  scenario.  People are going to be furious, installing side-by-side and
  loosing access to Windows totally.  Not even being able to reinstall
  to fix the machine.  Many will never come back to Linux... meaning
  also less support... and fewer donations for all.

  I finally added an entry to grub.cfg (which will be deleted at the
  next update!!!) but most newbies and many Linux users will not know
  how to do this.  The partition and boot info was there, all GRUB had
  to do was list it!

  THIS IS CRITICAL ABSOLUTELY NEED TO BE FIXED... BETTER ONE ADDITIONAL
  ENTRY THAN A MAIN ONE MISSING!

  Thanks.  Great Work!

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