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[Pierre Yahoo <pierrewinnipeg@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Grub does not detect all partitions possibly because a 
system has both a rescue partition and a main partition for 
Windows.  Happened to me on 2 Vista machines.  Reinsalling 
Vista did not fix the problem.  Also tried to reinstall GRUB 
and update it without success.  Also tried and failed with 
the Vista bootrec commands.

For newbies and many Linux users, this is a worst case 
horror scenario.  People are going to be furious, installing 
side-by-side and loosing access to Windows totally.  Many 
will never come back to Linux... meaning also less support...

I finally added an entry to grub.cfg (which will be deleted 
at the next update) but most newbies and many Linux users 
will not know how to do this.  The partition and boot info 
was there, all GRUB had to do was list it!

THIS ABSOLUTELY NEED TO BE FIXED... BETTER ONE ADDITIONAL 
ENTRY THAN A MAIN ONE MISSING!

Thanks.  Great Work!
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Pierre Champagne
pierrewinnipeg@xxxxxxxx
http://wavesofthefuture.net