From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020724 Description of problem: Lilo (and lilely grub) detects existing Operating Systems installed on fat32 partitions and adds the label `DOS'. The `DOS' Operating System was apparently renamed `Windows' some time ago. Really, its true! :) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Red Hat on a machine with another Oeprating System that lives on a vfat partition 2.Look at the label lilo gives that OS Actual Results: It says `DOS'. You're using Windows. Which these days is a different Operating System from DOS. Expected Results: It should say `Windows'. Additional info: Apparently this `Windows' is an Operating System like Red Hat Linux is! It's like `DOS', but newer, and made by a company called `Microsoft'. I know it sounds fanciful, but apparently people that use this `Windows' find the label `DOS' kinda amusing in 2002. :) I may have reported this bug before, but I can't find it in Bugzilla and its still there. Sorry if this is a duplicate.
Also, most DOS installations which are capable of reading/writing FAT32 partitions identify themselves as some form of "Windows" in response to the VER command.
For the note: Grub has indeed the same problem.
Oh, I just noticed that the component listed in this bug is LILO... I might be incorrect, but wouldn't anaconda be more appropriate? As far as I can tell, it's anaconda that's deciding to add the "DOS" label.
Please change component to Anaconda.
Changed accordingly.
Can this be changed to say something among the following labels, perhaps with some intelligent detection: Windows/DOS Windows (FAT32) Windows/DOS (FAT16) Windows (NTFS)
Can't find the older bug to dupe this against, but the short speech is that Windows is a trademark of Microsoft and therefore we can't do it.
Fair enough, but here's two options that avoid this problem and fix the bug: * `Win32' doesn't seem to be a trademark and is an accurate description of the OS. * With a modern 640 x 480 Lilo boot message, Red Hat could easily fit an unobtrusive `All trademarks are the property of their respective owners' in a small all-cap font.
I'm in agreement regarding "Win32". Any possibilty here? Just anything but "DOS". It is misleading these days and possibly confusing to new users.
Sorry, not changing this this late... it has too many effects on documentation and the like
Done