[Nottingham] Windows applications making GRUB 2 unbootable

[Martin]

Folks,

One to watch out for for anyone using Grub2:

Cheers,
Martin


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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:13:37 +0100
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk>


Hi,

Stalwart Colin Watson has a brief article explaining the problem with
Grub 2 on a dual-boot Windows/Linux system.  It seems some Windows'
applications assume they can use the first bit of the disk for their
protection schemes, trampling Grub 2 in the process.  (Grub 1 was
smaller.)  He's looking for samples where it happens to try and work
around the issue.  I thought it may be of interest to LUGs, and would
widen his search.

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2010/08/28

Cheers,
Ralph.