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To: Alan Somers Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , FreeBSD References: <140a6398-f8ad-ecd6-2a6f-5ca28f570a64@gmail.com> From: Don Wilde Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:47:00 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4B79s46t18z4Fn4 X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=VMFpbKHg; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dwilde1@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::42e as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=dwilde1@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.49 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36:c]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.61)[-0.609]; SUBJECT_ENDS_EXCLAIM(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[71.223.3.53:received]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.92)[-0.924]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.96)[-0.957]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::42e:from]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.33 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 23:47:05 -0000 On 7/16/20 1:28 PM, Alan Somers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 2:20 PM Don Wilde > 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? * ****************************************************