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Windows 8 Update Erases Grub, Enables Secure Boot

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 26 2014, @10:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-a-trap! dept.

deif writes:

A recent Windows 8 update detects other OS installs as a "security problem", erases non-windows bootloaders and enables UEFI Secure Boot, all without user intervention.

From a posting on reddit:

I contacted MS by chat (in Dutch, so of no use to you) and asked them about this. They vehemently denied this was possible at all. Multiple times, in no uncertain terms. Same results were acquired by phone: denial, denial, denial.

I pointed out that it did actually happen, and that it wan't the first time such a thing had happened in the history of MS updates -so "impossible" was BS, to put it shortly.

Then came a chat reply which amounted to "MS updates makes sure W8 functions fine, it does not look at other OS's integrity". This is, in my opinion, a de-facto admission that yes, the update had changed the bootloader back to the W8 version that ignores other OS's, and yes, it had set the UEFI setting back to "secure boot."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @01:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @01:14AM (#21931)

    What if you need the superior drivers, superior 3D acceleration, low latency and glitch-free sound? A VM does not give you that.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @04:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @04:50PM (#22225)

    superior drivers, superior 3D acceleration

    Simple solution: Stop handing over your cash for junky hardware whose lazy/incompetent manufacturer doesn't properly support every OS that you run.

    low latency and glitch-free sound

    The software isn't the problem; the problem is your parsimonious nature--and your overblown expectations for legacy gear.
    (As noted previously, you're quite the spendthrift when it comes to poorly-supported peripherals.)
    It's time to get something with more oomph than your Pentium 4.
    Try something built in the last 6 years.
    Dedicating a core to the VM will cure what ails you.

    -- gewg_