Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:47:00 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: URGENT: Microsoft overwrites boot loader! Message-ID: <a8ec8435-aefd-ff27-3148-00d367c8bafa@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2gPBX4OV=ag0gyKWUuP4Gc-mnyjCPzfb7buFHJMC0suiw@mail.gmail.com> References: <140a6398-f8ad-ecd6-2a6f-5ca28f570a64@gmail.com> <CAOtMX2gPBX4OV=ag0gyKWUuP4Gc-mnyjCPzfb7buFHJMC0suiw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/16/20 1:28 PM, Alan Somers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 2:20 PM Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com > <mailto:dwilde1@gmail.com>> wrote: > > The [deleted] ones in Redmond have done it again. My multi-OS > GRUB2 boot > loader is gone, and in its place is a 500M partition called 'Windows > boot loader'. > > The purpose is to force us to look at MS' new version of Edge. All my > old boot files are gone. > > It's taken me much of the morning to get underneath this, since on > this > unit my only OS (other than Doze 10) with a WM and GUI is Ubuntu. > > That's the last time I will allow this, and I'm calling those > [deleted]s > tomorrow to give them a piece of my mind. After that I will erase > every > vestige of that obscene OS from my disk. > > -- > Don Wilde > **************************************************** > * What is the Internet of Things but a system * > * of systems including humans? * > **************************************************** > > > Edge? I thought that was a browser. What does it have to do with > boot loaders? > -Alan It is. They over-wrote my boot loader with a special package touting their upgrade and its features. AUTOEXEC.bat is no longer sufficient for them! The only way to get out of it was to reboot to a different disk. By installing a new copy of Ubuntu from DVD on a portion of that drive, I was able to get to the rest of my disk through its GRUB2 (which had been trashed by MS). I sent a really pointed message to MS "Senior Technical Advisors" but nobody (of more than a dozen who were on-line and saw it) responded. I hope nobody commits seppuku, but I'll bet there will be some resignations. MS Windows is the toxic RoundUp of the software world, and 10 is the most egregious one yet. -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************
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