[Nottingham] Dual Boot - Windows updates and Linux boot failures

Jason Irwin jasonirwin73 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 26 17:44:31 UTC 2013


On 26/11/13 17:32, David Aldred wrote:
> If I close down Windows when it has started the update installation
> process, then restart in Linux,, Linux fails to boot.
Any errors shown?

> Is this expected behaviour?  And how is the presence of an incomplete
> Windows update stopping Linux booting in these circumstances?  
Quite possibly down to Windows flagging that it needs to reboot to
complete update and this through GRUB2 off.
But that's just a total guess on my part.

-- 
╔═════════════╦══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Jason Irwin ║ OpenPGP (GPG/PGP) Public Key: 0xD0C592B1 ║
║             ║ Import from hkp://subkeys.pgp.net        ║
╚═════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════╝



More information about the Nottingham mailing list