Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 17:20:09 -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: <c4e774cf-529a-09c2-c638-0d249bbe2d18@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2h-0Eozz2mkRZ_gFm4-z17f48DA9Vn=aUZrM_nXuLcZfw@mail.gmail.com> References: <140a6398-f8ad-ecd6-2a6f-5ca28f570a64@gmail.com> <CAOtMX2gPBX4OV=ag0gyKWUuP4Gc-mnyjCPzfb7buFHJMC0suiw@mail.gmail.com> <a8ec8435-aefd-ff27-3148-00d367c8bafa@gmail.com> <CAOtMX2h-0Eozz2mkRZ_gFm4-z17f48DA9Vn=aUZrM_nXuLcZfw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/16/20 4:55 PM, Alan Somers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 5:47 PM Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com > <mailto:dwilde1@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > 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. > > > Are you saying that they overwrite the bootloader in order to display > some kind of popup add before the main OS loads? That makes no sense > whatsoever. It is the crazy ravings of a madman. Except, I know Don > to be reliable. There's definitely a madman involved with this story > somehow, but I don't think it's Don. > > -Alan Thanks, Alan! After that one, I'm not even sure. <wink> From what others have said, I guess I've been lucky on this. Then again, I've been dodging MS bullets since the CP/M days... -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************
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