Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable 429
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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."
HP ProtectTools (Score:5, Funny)
Re:who the fuck would dual boot a server? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Move along (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, wait...
Re:Reinstall GRUB (Score:4, Funny)
"You and your grandmother likely have different definitions of "hard"."
As long as she's satisfied, I'll retain my definition.
Re:Solution: (Score:5, Funny)
What about Gimp as a Photoshop replacement?
Re:Solution: (Score:5, Funny)