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grub2 package

  1. Bug #551721
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 551721

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 551721] Re: [grub2] grub fails to load again (in Lucid)

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 05:51:43PM -0000, Thespian wrote:
> This isn't Ubuntu or the grub/grub2 maintainers _fault_, but it is their
> _problem_. Lots of us are dual-boot various flavors of windows and
> Linux, and if this wasn't a problem with the earlier grub (even with
> windows misbehaving and writing where it shouldn't) it _needs_ to
> continue working with grub2.

Certainly. In
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/debian/2010-08-28-windows-applications-making-grub2-unbootable.html,
I explained why this affects GRUB 2 and not GRUB Legacy, and I asked for
some specific information from people affected. The grub2 package
currently in Maverick already works around this for certain Windows
applications. If you supply the information I asked for in that blog
post (also requested in various bug comments), then I should be able to
extend our dictionary of signatures to cover your case.