a couple of years I haven't visited eglug, I kind of miss the old forum but that's just sentiment :)
Anyways, what brings me here now is that I am seeking expert opinion in one issue related to linux. I kind of know the answer but I bay be wrong afterall.
Our corporate IT are all Windows guys, and me receiving an unlocked laptop (no pass for bios) and using Ubuntu almost exclusively, I thought what's the hell, I created a linux partition and dual booted Windows and Ubuntu together, I even figured out how to configure the corporate VPN under Ubuntu (which was a pain finding that I had to convert the keys). I booted Ubuntu and XP inside VirtalBox when things got ugly on the Windows front (hanging and crashing), and back when things get better (don't ask how, that's the ghost in the machine)
I wanted to ungrade MS Office under Windows so I called the IT and they accessed the PC, removed old Office, restarted, I chose Windows to load, they accessed it again, and ... problems!
After countless hours of troubleshooting, the IT guy brilliantly concluded that the issue is a messed up Windows registry! I said so what? Sh*t happens, and it won't be the last corrupted registry. The irony is that he wanted something to blame so he blamed the thing he does not understand, that's linux.
After explaining that Linux lives on its partition (and that it does not use windows registry to install software!!!) he concluded that GRUB did it! :)
I honestly don't know how on earth a boot loader would have anything to do with registry files (since it was not installed on Windows), but when the IT manager takes that guy's words and repeat it (alongside telling me I violated the IT policy, I confess) that's just so unjustifiable and based on no facts.
So my question is, could there be a scenario where GRUB may mess up the Windows registry? I will not rest untill I prove they are plainly wrong, I am even compiling literature to build a business case to null that claim!
Sorry for the long story, but I am enraged a bit by all these arguments.
to explain it to your IT
to explain it to your IT guy;
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grub puts its conf files in /boot and /etc and that's it, it doesn't touch files on windows drives
(I'd continue and say, unless u install the windows version of grub, but that might just give him the "second in list" most brilliant idea).
DeVinci
Thank you for the reply, and
Thank you for the reply, and I agree with not telling those guys anything to put as their "second in list" :)
I know about grub, but could Windows be doing sthg really stupid like altering its own registry if it finds grub? probably not a question to ask here anyway :)
Are you using GRUB2 ?
Pretty normal corporate IT support.
Well, I believe it has been
Well, I believe it has been upgraded to grub2 with an upgrade to 10.04, I read about hp and dell software altering grub2 and corrupting it, but not the other way around. Could it be Windows committing suicide to make the IT guys hammer me in retaliation? :D
I meant that grub2 is
I meant that grub2 is overwriting some data that the application is expecting.