Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Anniversary upgrade warning - not LO issue

When I had Win7 and Ubuntu 14.xx?, upgrading to Win10 just messed with 
GRUB to the point that I did not get a boot option.  It just booted to 
Windows.  Simple to fix with a boot loader repair disk. BUT, not this 
"upgrade".  IT has to break the "system" so it cannot boot to any OS, 
even Windows.

What the Anniversary upgrade did to that laptop [not my main one] was 
messing up everything so bad that GRUB could not find any OSs in the 
laptop.  Then when I deleted and reinstalled GRUB, via the repair disk, 
Windows tried to boot up so it could finish the install.  The problem 
was Windows caused a file system error where the partition needed to be 
repaired before it continued.  I never say such a bad install attempt.

I have worked with Linux on-and-off since the later 90's, for work and 
classes.  I switched to Ubuntu as my default OS in 2009. Before that I 
had a Windows laptop and a Linux desktop.

This laptop - I am typing from - goes to Windows several times a month 
to keep it up-to-date.  I Windows decides to go crazy like the other 
one, I will be very unhappy.


On 12/01/2016 10:36 AM, Paolo Debortoli wrote:
> try:
> http://windowsreport.com/anniversary-update-destroys-boot-loader-dual-boot-config/
> http://www.legendiary.at/2016/01/04/windows-10-update-changes-partition-table-and-breaks-grub/
>
> I am a linux ubuntu user since 12 years and noticed that since win 8.1 it is hard to install and 
> maintain dual boot systems.
>
>
> Paolo
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, December 1, 2016 3:17 PM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmaster@krackedpress.com> 
> wrote:
>
> This is not about LO but about MS crashing both the Windows file system
> and GRUB.
>
> If you have not run the Windows 10 Anniversary upgrade, you might want
> to consider it as a new OS install that crashes GRUB and messes with the
> Windows partition where it need major repair.
>
> Yesterday, I upgraded my older DELL laptop that runs both Windows 10 and
> Ubuntu 16.04.
>
> Win10 gave me a icon for the Anniversary Upgrade Assistant.  IT took
> hours for the download and verify it.  During the install, at about 30%
> complete, the install required a reboot.  GRUB errors was all I got.  I
> had to use a boot repair disk twice to get the laptop to be able to boot
> at all.  When I was able to boot to Windows, it took about 20 minutes
> for Windows to auto-fix the file system. Then it took 6 more hours to
> finish the install.  It took less time to install the Win7 to Win10
> upgrade, than it took the Anniversary upgrade.
>
> Yes, MS messes with the GRUB system when it gets install alongside of
> Ubuntu, but it never caused so much trouble as it did yesterday
> afternoon to late evening.  6+ hours to install the upgrade and fix the
> laptop so it would boot again, was not expected.


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