On 7/16/20 4:55 PM, Alan Somers wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 5:47 PM Don Wilde <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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.
Are you saying that they overwrite the bootloader in order to display
some kind of popup add before the main OS loads? That makes no sense
whatsoever. It is the crazy ravings of a madman. Except, I know Don
to be reliable. There's definitely a madman involved with this story
somehow, but I don't think it's Don.
-Alan
Thanks, Alan!
After that one, I'm not even sure. <wink> From what others have said, I
guess I've been lucky on this. Then again, I've been dodging MS bullets
since the CP/M days...
--
Don Wilde
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* What is the Internet of Things but a system *
* of systems including humans? *
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