Phillip Susi, There seem to many a number of issues here, but the fact is that Grub installed itself over the windows boot sector, not the MBR. Wiping out the partition boot sector prevents Windows from booting, whereas replacing the bootloader in the MBR is normal (obviously). The bug I reported was supposed to *PREVENT* grub from ever installing to the Windows partition (this used to be offered in the drop down box as the target for Grub2 while installing - in Ubiquity) but should not be offered now. But if it's not offered, then the question is how does Grub get installed to the Windows partition? The only way I know is to manually do it with grub-install /dev/sda1 --force but clearly new users are not doing this. Therefore my point about the possible regression.
Running FIXMBR won't do a thing in this case. Until the bootsector is repaired Windows cannot boot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079482 Title: Windows 7 Not Booting after Grub installed to bootsector To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1079482/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
