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From: Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS May Cripple Your PC...
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 15:21:39 +0200
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Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.invalid> writes:

> On Thu, 1 May 2014 08:54:04 -0400
> 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Guess upgrades in the Linux world just don't work quite as well as
>> the COLA minions keep trumpeting.
>> 
>> Get ready for all the "works for me, must be you" messages from the
>> LinOloons.
>> 
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/28/ubuntu_power_user_crash/
>> 
>> "Canonical says it is working to fix a problem that's crippling some
>> Ubuntu PCs after they've been upgraded to the latest version of the
>> Linux distro."
>> 
>> "According to one Reg reader who has been in contact – and those
>> manning Ubuntu forums, see here and here – the upgrade breaks the
>> GRUB bootloader, rendering the machine unbootable."
>> 
>> GRUB bootloader you say?
>> 
> True. When I updated grub has installed on Windows disk and
> didn't on Linux disk. So I installed manually and everything
> went ok except that on Windows disk now grub loads instead
> of windows boot loader. Not that biggy since grub update detects
> windows loader no problem...

Yup - I can vouch for that. Why it cant in the first phase I don't
know. But running update-grub (it SHOULD be called grub-update for
obvious reasons) then spots it just fine.


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