On 26 January 2011 21:06, <bod...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On the subject of crapware, my boss decided to try ubuntu on his new dell > latitude laptop running win7, he installed it by himself, and came to me the > next day when it was broken. Turns out dell wrote a dock-like application > for win7, which they preinstalled and it cripples grub everytime it loads. > > Its not the dock, its the Dell Datasafe backup software and it only affects Grub2, doesn't affect earlier versions of Grub.
Tell him to boot into windows, uninstall, re-install grub and it will work. Steve
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