On 7/16/20 1:28 PM, Alan Somers wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 2:20 PM Don Wilde <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The [deleted] ones in Redmond have done it again. My multi-OS
GRUB2 boot
loader is gone, and in its place is a 500M partition called 'Windows
boot loader'.
The purpose is to force us to look at MS' new version of Edge. All my
old boot files are gone.
It's taken me much of the morning to get underneath this, since on
this
unit my only OS (other than Doze 10) with a WM and GUI is Ubuntu.
That's the last time I will allow this, and I'm calling those
[deleted]s
tomorrow to give them a piece of my mind. After that I will erase
every
vestige of that obscene OS from my disk.
--
Don Wilde
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Edge? I thought that was a browser. What does it have to do with
boot loaders?
-Alan
It is. They over-wrote my boot loader with a special package touting
their upgrade and its features.
AUTOEXEC.bat is no longer sufficient for them!
The only way to get out of it was to reboot to a different disk. By
installing a new copy of Ubuntu from DVD on a portion of that drive, I
was able to get to the rest of my disk through its GRUB2 (which had been
trashed by MS).
I sent a really pointed message to MS "Senior Technical Advisors" but
nobody (of more than a dozen who were on-line and saw it) responded. I
hope nobody commits seppuku, but I'll bet there will be some resignations.
MS Windows is the toxic RoundUp of the software world, and 10 is the
most egregious one yet.
--
Don Wilde
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* What is the Internet of Things but a system *
* of systems including humans? *
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