[Bug 441941] Re: grub fails after running Windows

[Michael Völker]

I ran into this damn issue on a corporate PC that has Windows 7
Enterprise with Novell ZENworks installed on one partition.

I would like to thank Tabsc a lot for giving a hint to the solution
(#193)! However, I did not edit the registry directly but disabled the
ZENworks ISD service. Also, it was not sufficient to disable autostart
but I had to disable the service explicitly.

I took two steps that seem to be stable after a few reboots and logins
now and I share them here. Probably, only the 2nd one is required, but I
just share what I did.

Step 0, maybe unnecessary:
Disable "Novell ZENworks ISD Service" using msconfig.exe:
Windows Start Menu → enter "msconfig" → go to the "Services" tab and deactivate. Result:
http://s9.postimg.org/c66dc4f7z/msconfig_ZISD_deactivation.png

Step 1:
Really disable "Novell ZENworks ISD Service" using services.msc:
Windows Start Menu → enter "services.msc" → deactivate "Novell ZENworks ISD Service". Result:
http://s27.postimg.org/e4wgo03z7/services_msc_ZISD_deactivation.png

At first, I only took step 0, because Tabsc was referring to auto start.
Indeed I could reboot successfully at first, but the ZISD was seemingly
triggered by another service later, so it stopped working, again. Step 1
seems to be a permanent solution... *fingers crossed*

tags for search engines:
ZISD, Zen, Windows 7, Linux Mint, linuxmint, enterprise

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Title:
  grub fails after running Windows

Status in GRand Unified Bootloader:
  New
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in grub2 source package in Lucid:
  Confirmed
Status in grub2 source package in Maverick:
  Invalid
Status in grub2 package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 9.10 beta
  Grub

  After installing 9.10 beta, machine displays GRUB screen and allows rebooting into either Ubuntu or Windows.
  Both Windows and Ubuntu will load and run BUT, once you log out of windows, grub fails with only one line of text displayed - something like Loading GRUB. Computer is unusable - can't even Control-Alt-Delete. Must turn off and reinstall ubuntu.

  Usual method to restore GRUB is to run from the CD and fix grub from a
  terminal. This doesn't work in 9.10 with message "grub not installed"

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