Converting a friend to Ubuntu - Continued

[Loïc Grenié]

2010/2/18 David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) <ethnopunk at telkomsa.net>:
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> Tab Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>     At startup he falls back to a root shell and his 2 ext4 disks (root
>>     had errors, home was OK) had to be fsck before a new reboot (and he
>>     wasn't yet at his 31st boot).
>>
>> This is a little to technical for me but I know the recent Vista
>> security updates conks out grub.  I posted the question on here a few
>> weeks ago but never got a response.  The solution I googled up was a
>> little to much for me so I had to reinstall Ubuntu.  I did not know
>> that Vista took three reboots to do the complete update so I got to
>> reinstall Ubuntu three times.  I know this is not addressing your
>> question but there is something funky about the Vista security update
>> on a dual boot system.  The problem might be the creation of Vista.
>>
>> tab
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> It's one of the reasons I don't enjoy duel boot systems and never
> recommend them. Windows always figures out some way to write all over
> grub. A clean single installation is always better.

     That's why I never put grub on the MBR of a dual boot system (and
  I don't understand why some distributions nearly compel you to put it
  there).

      Loïc