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GRUB 2.00 released

GRUB 2.00 released

Posted Jun 29, 2012 12:39 UTC (Fri) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
In reply to: GRUB 2.00 released by steveriley
Parent article: GRUB 2.00 released

Read the source code of the OS prober.

I guess it's most likely finding the NTFS partition boot code for Windows 7, not sure if you can easily erase it or disable the check.

Probably the fix is to expand the check to also check that a file called "bootmgr" is present in the NTFS root directory (or "ntldr" in the pre-Vista case).


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GRUB 2.00 released

Posted Jun 30, 2012 8:53 UTC (Sat) by steveriley (subscriber, #83540) [Link]

Yup, that was the problem -- Bootmgr was present. Earlier I had suggested looking for NTLDR, which of course wasn't there. Completely forgot about Bootmgr!

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