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Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable

Posted by timothy on from the windows-is-to-boot-out-not-up dept.

KwahAG writes "Colin Watson, one of the Ubuntu developers, published in his blog information about Windows applications making GRUB 2 unbootable. Users of dual-boot Windows/Linux installations may face the problem, which boils down to particular Windows applications (Colin does not name them, but users point at least to HP ProtectTools, PC Angel, Adobe Flexnet) blindly overwriting hard disk content between the MBR and the first partition destroying information already stored there, in this particular case — the 'core image' of GRUB 2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) making the system unbootable."

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  1. Re:Move along by bkpark · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nothing to see here...Just proprietary companies fucking up some computers. What do they care? They've got a large market to sere that doesn't run our far-superior POSIX compatible kernels.

    I honestly hope there is a way to sue them, though I don't think there is.

    If those POSIX compatible kernels are so superior, why was anyone running the "inferior" Windows operating system in the first place?

    The way I see it, people who are affected by this deserve it—they shouldn't have been dual-booting into Windows in the first place.

  2. Re:"built his house upon the sand" by toriver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nonsense, games are more stable on consoles. I bought Fallout 3 for PS3 on sale since the PC version I bought on Steam consistently froze after a scant few minutes of play. Should I as an end consumer really need to dig into minutiae of Windows settings to try and tweak it enough for a game to run properly? I thought we had left the bad old days behind us.

    Repeat after me: PCs for surfing and work, consoles for games.