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#1 2014-12-08 10:48:13
- smilinger
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[SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
Hi all.
I just installed Arch on my Thinkpad T420, Everything is ok except Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista.
I have Windows 7 installed on SSD, on another drive I have 2 NTFS partitions and 1 ext4 partition on which Arch is installed, grub is installed to SSD, both system can boot without problem.
I installed Mint before, it recognizes Windows 7 with no problem.
Can I fix this? I googled this and I think this problem should have been fixed long ago, don't know why the grub os-prober think I have Vista installed, I never installed Vista before.
Last edited by smilinger (2014-12-10 12:57:05)
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#2 2014-12-08 11:09:32
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
There's no need to "fix" it -- my Windows 7 and my Windows Technical Preview (Windows 10 beta) both show up as "Vista" and they both boot up fine from the GRUB menu.
If it bothers you, just edit the menu line in grub.cfg...
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#3 2014-12-08 11:26:13
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
Same thing here, but Fedora 21's grub2 is handling this multi-boot system. I'm running Arch as I type this but the Vista thing is something I noticed when I ran os-prober under Fedora 21 half an hour ago.
And the same thing with Arch's os-prober.
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#4 2014-12-08 11:43:23
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
It seems a bit random as to which versions of Windows GRUB recognises things as.
All my systems identify the versions of Windows correctly with GRUB2. When I was using grub-legacy, sometimes I'd get Windows 7 and Windows Vista other times.
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#5 2014-12-09 13:11:09
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
Ok then, I can live with that.
Thank you guys.
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#6 2014-12-09 16:14:20
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
It is just to remind you Windows is trash, with emphasis on Vista ...
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#7 2014-12-09 16:41:52
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
There's no need for that, Pyntux.
smilinger, please mark the thread as solved if you are happy with the conclusion.
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#8 2014-12-10 05:49:55
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
That was just a joke, but OK, I'm sorry...
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#9 2014-12-13 13:49:44
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
I think I figured out why. After some digging I found the code in /usr/lib/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft that has a tiny bug.
The problem is the grep options, maybe in other distributions binary files are treated as text by default or something, but apparently in Archlinux it's not, so any OS that's higher than Vista will be recognized as Vista.
Anyway, I pasted the patch here, it's easy to fix.
--- 20microsoft.old 2014-11-04 23:53:28.000000000 +0800
+++ 20microsoft 2014-12-13 21:39:27.471912583 +0800
@@ -31,19 +31,19 @@
for boot in $(item_in_dir boot "$2"); do
bcd=$(item_in_dir bcd "$2/$boot")
if [ -n "$bcd" ]; then
- if grep -qs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .8" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
+ if grep -aqs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .8" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
long="Windows 8 (loader)"
- elif grep -qs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .7" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
+ elif grep -aqs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .7" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
long="Windows 7 (loader)"
- elif grep -qs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .V.i.s.t.a" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
+ elif grep -aqs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .V.i.s.t.a" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
long="Windows Vista (loader)"
- elif grep -qs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .S.e.r.v.e.r. .2.0.0.8. .R.2." "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
+ elif grep -aqs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .S.e.r.v.e.r. .2.0.0.8. .R.2." "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
long="Windows Server 2008 R2 (loader)"
- elif grep -qs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .S.e.r.v.e.r. .2.0.0.8." "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
+ elif grep -aqs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .S.e.r.v.e.r. .2.0.0.8." "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
long="Windows Server 2008 (loader)"
- elif grep -qs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .R.e.c.o.v.e.r.y. .E.n.v.i.r.o.n.m.e.n.t" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
+ elif grep -aqs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .R.e.c.o.v.e.r.y. .E.n.v.i.r.o.n.m.e.n.t" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
long="Windows Recovery Environment (loader)"
- elif grep -qs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .S.e.t.u.p" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
+ elif grep -aqs "W.i.n.d.o.w.s. .S.e.t.u.p" "$2/$boot/$bcd"; then
long="Windows Recovery Environment (loader)"
else
long="Windows Vista (loader)"Last edited by smilinger (2014-12-13 13:55:04)
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#10 2014-12-27 16:09:19
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Re: [SOLVED]Grub recognize Windows 7 as Windows Vista
Thanks for posting your fix. It solved the same problem I was having with Windows 8.1 being reported as Windows Vista.
I know it may have been a cosmetic menu entry but I still wanted it to be correct.
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