[aklug] Re: Windows applications making GRUB 2 unbootable?

From: Tim Gibney <timgibney76@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Aug 29 2010 - 18:11:09 AKDT

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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> Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
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