[bug #34786] os-prober does not recognize Windows 7 partition

[Pavel Mendl]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #34786 (project grub):

Crap. You are right! I did not notice /dev/sdb3 suddenly appeared (it was not
formated before I started installation process). It must be kind of Windows
installer magic. And it looks like this would be the proper Windows7 boot
partition. In the following /dev/sdb3 is mounted as /mnt/Windows_XP not to
need to create more and more folders under /mnt :

/mnt/Windows_XP/:
Boot  bootmgr  BOOTSECT.BAK  System Volume Information  w7ldr

/mnt/Windows_XP/Boot:
BCD       BOOTSTAT.DAT  el-GR  Fonts  ja-JP        nl-NL  ru-RU  zh-HK
BCD.LOG   cs-CZ         en-US  fr-FR  ko-KR        pl-PL  sv-SE  zh-TW
BCD.LOG1  da-DK         es-ES  hu-HU  memtest.exe  pt-BR  tr-TR
BCD.LOG2  de-DE         fi-FI  it-IT  nb-NO        pt-PT  zh-CN

/mnt/Windows_XP/Boot/cs-CZ:
bootmgr.exe.mui  memtest.exe.mui

/mnt/Windows_XP/Boot/da-DK:
bootmgr.exe.mui

/mnt/Windows_XP/Boot/de-DE:
bootmgr.exe.mui

... and many more language .mui.

This is the output of $ echo /sys/block/
loop0/ loop2/ loop4/ loop6/ sda/   sdc/   sr0/   
loop1/ loop3/ loop5/ loop7/ sdb/   sdd/   sr1/ 

In the evening I will try to redirect W7 boot menu item to /dev/sdb3 (what I
expect to work now) and will report back.

If this kind of boot will be succesfull, is there any chance to hold it all in
/dev/sda3 (e.g. moving the root items and /boot folder into /dev/sda3,
eventually with replacing 1st sector of /dev/sda3 with the content of first
sector of /dev/sdb3) ?

Any other useful ideas, clues, recommendations or test requests?

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