jbeiter
January 11th, 2013, 05:19 PM
currently I'm running windows7 64 and ubuntu 10.10 32 with mixed partitions between 2 drives.
I have never been able to complete a windows update. It always fails with mickysoft's typical unhelpful fail messages.
At one point I tried to track the problem down and ran across something that claimed windows update can't deal with grub on the MBR and to fix it you have to remove grub, redo the mbr with windows, etc...
I don't know if it was true and never tried it, but now I am about to reformat the windows and redo the partitions a bit.
Can anyone confirm if this is infact a problem? I know there are dozens of windows and ubuntu how-tos.. but none that I read seem to confirm what I want to do.. just load windows on one disk, linux on the other and have grub2 boot. Does windows *have* to be disk 0? If so, is it going to be pissy with grub on the mbr?
I have never been able to complete a windows update. It always fails with mickysoft's typical unhelpful fail messages.
At one point I tried to track the problem down and ran across something that claimed windows update can't deal with grub on the MBR and to fix it you have to remove grub, redo the mbr with windows, etc...
I don't know if it was true and never tried it, but now I am about to reformat the windows and redo the partitions a bit.
Can anyone confirm if this is infact a problem? I know there are dozens of windows and ubuntu how-tos.. but none that I read seem to confirm what I want to do.. just load windows on one disk, linux on the other and have grub2 boot. Does windows *have* to be disk 0? If so, is it going to be pissy with grub on the mbr?