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.)