On 15 October 2010 12:04, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz> wrote:
I still would not expect (perhaps Liz can correct me if I'm wrong) that the version of Ubuntu is going to make the slightest difference as far as Windows overwriting it. The problem is in Windows and it's total blindness to other OS'es, not in Ubuntu or GRUB. If you don't have the problem already then I doubt upgrading Ubuntu is going to create one.
Sounds about right to me, i did read up about it at the time and i'm pretty sure and upgrade/downgrade of grub fixed the problem and it was a windows thing not linux related. I could be wrong, i just had better things to do. Liz
Possible exception if Windows is aware of the original GRUB bootloader but doesn't recognise GRUB2, in which case you might be able to upgrade Ubuntu and then reinstall grub-legacy?
On 15 October 2010 11:54, Sandwalker <sandwalker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, that's just great. I don't boot into Windows too often -- maybe once a week -- but there are programs and games that I need Windows for (such as MS Office 2007, MS Money, Steam (and the games that use it)). I don't want to be stuck with Karmic forever. >.< Is there a workaround for this grub overwrite?
Sandy
On 15/10/10 11:16, Liz Quilty wrote:
Actually thats untrue, with the "bug" windows over writes the grub bootloader every single time it boots :/ Its very annoying, because often it doesnt actually boot either OS afterwards and involves a boot cd/USB stick.
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