Re: Issue with grub2-mkconfig

[Jordan Uggla]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Michael D. Setzer II
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I've noticed an issue with at least Fedora 16's grub2-mkconfig.
>
> I have systems that have an XP partition on /dev/sda1 and have
> noticed two issues.
>
> 1. After running grub2-mkconfig once, it works fine, and creates
> the grub.cfg correct, but if one runs it again, it fails to find the
> windows?
> 2. After running grub2-mkconfig once, the windows partition can
> not be mounted as it says it is busy, but is not mounted?

This sounds like a bug in os-prober, which grub-mkconfig uses to
detect other OSs but is actually a separate project (part of the
Debian boot project). Try booting and running "os-prober" twice, the
second invocation will probably fail and you will again not be able to
mount your Windows partition. If that's the case, please file a bug
report with Debian boot.

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Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)