Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sun Apr 28 14:48:43 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:01 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:37 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Steve McIntyre <steve at einval.com> (25/04/2013):
> > > I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support
> > > in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so
> [...]
> > We'd need a d-i wheezy rc3. Not sure there's room/time for that. Would
[...]
> > Release managers, what do you think?
> 
> I am somewhat nervous about the timescales, but if we can get targetted
> fixes in and builds turned around quickly then I think it's probably
> worth it to reduce some of the support pain.

What's the status there? Being another day nearer the published date
doesn't make me any /less/ nervous, certainly...

Regards,

Adam




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