Bug 1322956

Summary:	Update Windows detection support
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	rmarshall
Component:	os-prober	Assignee:	rmarshall
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jan Ščotka <jscotka>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.3	CC:	mbanas, rmarshall, salmy
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	os-prober-1.58-6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Lack of proper data to identify a Windows installation. Consequence: Windows 10 shows up as recovery partition if it could be detected, or failure to detect Windows at all. Fix: Add support for Windows 10 Result: Can now detect Windows 10 and installations where the OS identifying file is a binary mode file instead of a text mode file.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2016-11-04 04:29:00 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description rmarshall 2016-03-31 18:39:20 UTC

Description of problem: Backport updates from upstream already present in Fedora that improve the detection of Windows and add support for the proper detection of Windows 10.


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Comment 7 Martin Banas 2016-08-30 14:09:31 UTC

Reproduced on RHEL-7.2 GA:
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q os-prober
os-prober-1.58-5.el7.x86_64
[root@localhost ~]# grub2-mkconfig 2> /dev/null | grep 'root=/dev'
	linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro  
		linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro  
		linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro single 
		linux16 /vmlinuz-0-rescue-100ed28aa8dde6458785541fb34d4ab7 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro  
		linux16 /vmlinuz-0-rescue-100ed28aa8dde6458785541fb34d4ab7 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro single 
	linux /vmlinuz-0-rescue-100ed28aa8dde6458785541fb34d4ab7 root=/dev/dm-2
		linux /vmlinuz-0-rescue-100ed28aa8dde6458785541fb34d4ab7 root=/dev/dm-2
		linux /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/dm-2

Verified on RHEL-7.3 Snapshot1:
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q os-prober
os-prober-1.58-8.el7.x86_64
[root@localhost ~]# grub2-mkconfig 2> /dev/null | grep 'root=/dev'
	linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro  
		linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro  
		linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro single 
		linux16 /vmlinuz-0-rescue-100ed28aa8dde6458785541fb34d4ab7 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro  
		linux16 /vmlinuz-0-rescue-100ed28aa8dde6458785541fb34d4ab7 root=/dev/mapper/rhel00-root ro single 
	linux /vmlinuz-0-rescue-100ed28aa8dde6458785541fb34d4ab7 root=/dev/mapper/rhel-root
		linux /vmlinuz-0-rescue-100ed28aa8dde6458785541fb34d4ab7 root=/dev/mapper/rhel-root
		linux /vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel-root

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 04:29:00 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2351.html