Comment 37 for bug 576724

@Erick: sadly, this report is getting more and more off-topic. I doubt any dev will find the time to go through all of this. The overall relevance of this "bug" is also questionable as almost exclusively people are affected that work for at least months on Ubuntu and are very happy with it.

Again, I 'd like to point out that this is neither a bug in grub2 nor in the installer but rather in the way inexperienced users are misled by insufficient help during the grub installation process. The installer simply does what you tell it - so what's buggy about this? Sure it would be nice to not have to tell it anything at all but this may lead to problems in non-standard environments where at least Ubuntu must always be bootable after an upgrade.

Those Users that are unable to restore the Windows boot record are to my experience most likely affected by a bug in the Windows repair tools that in rare instances are unable to correctly restore a single byte in the affected boot sector.

I do agree however that the issue is there and needs some urgent action. We still see many people every day that are affected and need help from the support forums.

As any constructive ideas are missing here I'd like to point again on my suggestion made earlier in bug #571893: Please change the help text from the grub installer so that it really helps the inexperienced and warns from possible side-effects. I do believe this would be sufficient for now. And, at least the issue should be mentioned in the release or upgrade notes.