Re: after upgrading from W7 to W10, grub2 still thinks it's W7

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Interesting. After upgrading from W7 to W8.1, I had  'Windows 8
(loader) (on /dev/sda1)'. However, After installing W10 Tech Preview
10130 and upgrading to the actual release, I have 'Windows 7 (loader)
(on /dev/sda1)'

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Andre Robatino
<robatino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris Murphy <lists <at> colorremedies.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Andre Robatino
>> <robatino <at> fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> > I have a BIOS machine which is dual boot Windows 7/Fedora 22. I just
>> > upgraded Windows from 7 to 10, but grub2 still detects it as "Windows 7
>> > (loader)", same as before, even after running "grub2-install /dev/sda" and
>> > "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" in F22. Other than the mislabel,
>> > everything seems fine. Is it normal for grub2 to not detect the correct
>> > Windows version? What about Windows 8, which has been around for a while?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure this is hard coded in GRUB. There is nothing that GRUB
>> finds that identifies the version. Perhaps the most appropriate thing
>> is to get a patch that just says "Microsoft Windows" to upstream.
>
> I have two other BIOS machines that are also dual-boot Windows and F22 (one
> is XP and the other is Vista) and grub2 detects them correctly as "Microsoft
> Windows XP Home Edition" and "Windows Vista (loader)", resp. I don't know if
> something changed in Windows 8 and later, or if it has to do with my W10
> machine being an upgrade from W7, as opposed to the clean install I normally
> do. (I could clean install it, since W10 should reactivate automatically,
> but it's not worth the trouble for now.)
>
>
>
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