[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
There isn't really anything that we can do about this. os-prober can't detect Windows if it can't mount the partition. It can't mount the partition if it needs recovery. ** Package changed: grub (Ubuntu) => os-prober (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: os-prober (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 Title: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/21175/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 Title: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/21175/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Rayday (rmcgee775) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 Title: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/21175/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Assignee: Rayday (rmcgee775) = (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 Title: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/21175/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
--- grub-mkconfig
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@
fi
if test x${grub_cfg} != x ; then
+ # backup previous one
+ cp ${grub_cfg} ${grub_cfg}.backup_`date +%Y%m%d_%s`
# none of the children aborted with error, install the new grub.cfg
mv -f ${grub_cfg}.new ${grub_cfg}
fi
** Description changed:
Just guessing at the package, please reassign if necessary!
After the latest Breezy upgrades, including a new kernel, I have found that my
Windows partition and Thinkpad Rescue Partition, both previously automatically
detected and inserted into the grub menu, have disappeared from my bootup
options. Although this is essentially a Good Thing, it's clearly a bug. See
URL
for the hardware information.
Matt
-
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ThinkpadT43-1871:
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ThinkpadT43-1871
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Confirmed
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[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
Sorry, should not have marked invalid. It is considered incompletely closed. ** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Incomplete -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
Should not have touched this, my apologies. ** Changed in: grub (Baltix) Status: Invalid = New -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again! ** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid ** Changed in: grub (Baltix) Status: New = Invalid -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
can't test either. grub install is not something you do regularly :) -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
This bug isn't about installing grub, but simply about starting system with a/the NTFS partition with dirty flag. E.g. while running Windows, cut down the AC power. Running ntfsresize also used to set the dirty flag so that the Windows chkdsk would kick in during (Windows) boot. -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
I don't have the relevant hardware any more so can't test further. Perhaps some other subscribers to the bug can help. -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Looks like the bug was accidentally marked incomplete by vingslagsvisvidare. However, You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance. -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
happened to me on 9.10. It was alright until IT update program in
windows installed safeboot.
then after the next kernel update in ubuntu, the grub script simply
removed the windows entry.
os-prober returns nothing.
I strongly suggest to add a simple backup of the generated grub.conf
since important information may be lost on those cases.
an easy patch:
--- grub-mkconfig
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@
fi
if test x${grub_cfg} != x ; then
+ # backup previous one
+ cp ${grub_cfg} ${grub_cfg}.backup_`date +%Y%m%d_%s`
# none of the children aborted with error, install the new grub.cfg
mv -f ${grub_cfg}.new ${grub_cfg}
fi
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[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
I think this may also happen if you abort an NTFS partition resize operation (during installation of Ubuntu), because then the NTFS filesystem becomes dirty and need checking. -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
Thanks Steve for this good explanation. In this case, I created a request in Bug #191738 . -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
Hi Alexandre, When you update your kernels, the part that runs is update-grub, which has no knowledge of Windows whatsoever. Instead, this is a script that manages the part of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file between the ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers. If you add a Windows boot entry between these markers, you're absolutely right that it will disappear on a kernel upgrade, and that this has nothing to do with Windows partitions - that's bug #21412 in grub, which has been fixed for Ubuntu 8.04. Your symptom does not match what has been originally reported in this bug, however, so I have not presumed that this is a duplicate of bug #21412 - it appears to be a real problem with grub loading Windows at boot time, unrelated to problems with menu.lst being overwritten. -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
you need to fix the ntfs bootsector, which solves this issue ( it did for me at least ). use fixboot from the win recovery console, and grub should boot win fine. -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
** Also affects: grub (Baltix) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21175 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
While not a duplicate, the recovery partition accessibility problem is also discussed in Bug 19634. -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://launchpad.net/bugs/21175 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://launchpad.net/bugs/21175 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
** Changed in: grub (Ubuntu) Assignee: Colin Watson = (unassigned) -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://launchpad.net/bugs/21175 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 21175] Re: Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery
Hey I got the same problem but, I added this which I found above but changed the hd0,0 to hd0,1 because of the dell recovery partition which is under hd0,0. When Windows booted it checked for consistency and did whatever it thought it had to do and worked fine after wards So editing the menu.lst file does work title Microsoft Windows root (hd0,1) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 Thanks -- Grub removes Windows boot option when NTFS partition needs recovery https://launchpad.net/bugs/21175 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
