Many Windows apps include DRM that loads in the same hard drive sectors as
the MBR and Grub. Turbotax is one example app that has been known to do
this. I do not know if Inuit fixed it or not.
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fielder was attempting to help someone (Rod) at FriLinux last night and
> I don't think they were having much luck. I thought I overheard a
> complaint about Windows messing w/ Grub somehow. Rod's box, if I
> remember correctly, is an HP laptop.
>
> I tripped over this off Slashdot a few minutes ago and thought it
> sounded like it might be applicable.
>
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/debian/2010-08-28-windows-applications-making-grub2-unbootable.html<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/%7Ecjwatson/blosxom/debian/2010-08-28-windows-applications-making-grub2-unbootable.html>
>
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