[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

[Steve Fisher]

On 26 January 2011 21:06, <bodsda at 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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