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grub2 package

  1. Bug #576724
  2. Comment #77

Comment 77 for bug 576724

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bcbc (bcbc) wrote :

I have started seeing wubi users overwriting their MBR with grub2 after running the latest updates - probably this patch. It's not clear yet whether they are prompted to select the drive or it's doing it automatically - I am trying to get feedback - but either way this seems to be a continuation of the 'confusion'. Unfortunately many new wubi users don't have a live CD either, but from one bootinfoscript it's grub2 in multiple MBRs all pointing to #256.

In light of this, until this can be confirmed or refuted, I recommend pulling the update, as the consequences will be very unfortunate. I am not saying this is 100% the case, but a cluster of these has shown up recently.

Here are what I have been seeing...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538228
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1537956
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1538170
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1482621 (this is an older thread, but a new user (softis) added to it and has the same issue).