From: Andrey Borzenkov Date: Fri Jan 4 09:46:56 UTC 2013 Subject: skip legacy Microsoft bootloader on UEFI system References: bnc#775610 Patch-Mainline: no Sometimes Windows installs both legacy BIOS and UEFI bootloaders. Attempt to chainload legacy bootloader on UEFI system fails. Skip adding legacy bootloader in this case. TODO: this probably should be implemented as runtime check. But it does the right thing in majority of cases. If mixed legacy/UEFI boot will be used frequently, it can be revisited. Index: os-prober/os-probes/mounted/x86/20microsoft =================================================================== --- os-prober.orig/os-probes/mounted/x86/20microsoft +++ os-prober/os-probes/mounted/x86/20microsoft @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ partition="$1" mpoint="$2" type="$3" +# This script looks for legacy BIOS bootloaders only. Skip if running UEFI +if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ]; then + debug "Skipping legacy bootloaders on UEFI system" + exit 1 +fi + # Weed out stuff that doesn't apply to us case "$type" in ntfs|ntfs-3g) debug "$1 is a NTFS partition" ;;