[ale] Why Dual-Booting Sucks ...

JD jdp at algoloma.com
Thu Oct 16 17:07:13 EDT 2014


Why Dual-Booting Sucks ...

After 30+ minutes of Win7 x64 patches today, I dutifully rebooted a laptop.
After the BIOS and memory checks, there was the GRUB RESCUE prompt staring at me.

Haven't taken the time to figure out what Windows did to it yet. The machine is
mainly a Windows7 box, no-UEFI and only boots into Linux a few times a quarter.
 I expect "boot-repair" will fix it.

This is 1 reason why dual booting sucks. Running that other OS inside a VM is
much nicer so patches don't assume they pwn the boot security and fcuk with it.

Perhaps I should report it as a Sev-1 bug to MSFT?


Either that or my HDD is beginning to die - 50-50 chance of that.


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