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Re: [Roy Schestowitz Lies Again] [Rival] Microsoft Sabotages MBR (GNU/Linux) with Windows Update (was: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Sabotages MBR (GNU/Linux) with Windows Update)

On 2008-04-10, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:51:28 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Vista SP1 won't install on dual-boot systems: Microsoft
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| If you¢re dualbooting Windows Vista Enterprise or Ultimate alongside a Linux 
>>| distro, and have installed the Linux bootloader into the MBR, then you¢re 
>>| guaranteed to run into problems when installing Vista Service Pack 1, 
>>| Microsoft has admitted.   
>> `----
>> 
>> http://apcmag.com/vista_sp1_wont_install_on_dualboot_systems_microsoft.htm
>
> Once again, you lie about the articles you quote.  Your headline "Microsoft
> Sabotages MBR (GNU/Linux) with Windows Update" is saying that Microsoft
> replaces the MBR, but that's false.  It doesn't, and the article explicitly
> says that.

Maybe you should read it:

   If you?re dualbooting Windows Vista Enterprise or Ultimate alongside
   a Linux distro, and have installed the Linux bootloader into the
   MBR, then you?re guaranteed to run into problems when installing
   Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft has admitted.

   The service pack has a couple of prerequisite updates and one of
   them, KB935509, contains an update to the Windows Vista bootloader.
   However, this bootloader is often replaced by open source
   bootloaders like Grub when installing Linux onto a system.

   Microsoft has excused itself by saying Vista SP1 contains an update
   to the BitLocker feature, and replacing the bootloader is a
   necessary prerequisite just in case the system being serviced
   contains a drive encrypted with BitLocker or worse, an encrypted
   boot partition.

It destroys the mbr on Enterprise (pre-pre-alpha) and Ultimate
(post-pre-beta). It's intentional. That's more than sufficient to
satisfy the headline's claim.

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