From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020717 Description of problem: Today at an InstallFest at the University of Hawaii I was helping a few students prepare their Windows XP systems for dual-boot operation in preperation for their ICS412 operating system class this Fall (homework hacking the Linux kernel!). I noticed that Red Hat 7.3 does not autodetect the presence of NTFS Windows partitions and create a boot loader entry, and someone else mentioned on limbo-list that Limbo does not either. Please make Anaconda automatically create the GRUB or LILO entry to chainload Windows 2000/XP on an NTFS partition. It currently adds an entry for FAT32 Windows partitions, but not NTFS.
I got this to work by clicking the "add" button (I think) and it found and added my XP NTFS partition to grub with no problem. But it didn't add it automatically until I did that. So not sure what the problem is.
Bootable partitions don't really have any easily distinguishable feature. I've changed the heuristic we used from find the first FAT partition to find the first FAT or NTFS partition now that NTFS is more common.
Thanks, this appears to be working in Limbo2 now. Can the default label be changed from "DOS" to something like "Windows FAT32" or "Windows NTFS" since the vast majority of users will be using Windows rather than DOS? Just a minor cosmetic issue.
CLOSED->RAWHIDE (based on reporter's confirmation)