Windows 7 sets it's own partition active, messes up grub's boot.

[Andre-D]

I had an empty Partition 1
Partition 2 was ubuntu, mounted as "/" (part 2 was active)

I installed win7 to Partition 1 - as usual,the arrogance of M$ make it boot from partition 1, ignoring any existing OS.

I marked partition 2 as active, and again, Grub works, and I can select os.

the problem is, that if I wish to boot to the pile of bloat'n'bugs called win7 - it sets it's own partition active !

how can I disable this extremely rude, crappy, ignorant OS from doing so ?

[Markus72]

Hi,

try variant 2 from here (http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-restore-grub-2-after-reinstalling-windows-xpvistawin7).

Worked for me

Markus

[Andre-D]

please observe that I do not need to restore grub, as it's untouched iono partition 2 , just make the windows stop setting partition 1 as active.

[meierfra.]

just make the windows stop setting partition 1 as active.

I would guess it's Grub who makes the partition active. So try this:



gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Remove "makeactive" from your Windows item

[Andre-D]

wow , thnx, I did the change, will try next time I need to boot to windows.
-why would Grub do that ? - I've never seen this, and I've dual-booted before using grub - and never experienced this.

makeactive, if that means "make that partition active" - is a one-way road..

[meierfra.]

-why would Grub do that ?
I think its due to the myth that Windows needs to boot flag to be able to boot.



makeactive, if that means "make that partition active"
It does.



I've never seen this, and I've dual-booted before using grub
It only matters if Grub is not installed in the MBR.





how can I disable this extremely rude, crappy, ignorant OS from doing so
You owe Window 7 a public apology;)

[Andre-D]

I see, that may be the MBR stuff.

I hereby apologise for assuming win7 was as nasty as I did, sorry.

This was based by 23year long IT career as senior administrator and security consultant, where only the 2 last years I've been using Linux only, except for a virtual windows when needed, so I've seen so much bad microsoft stuff that I am generally negative towards their products, sometimes without good reason.

:)