“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

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arstechnica.com

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Microsoft said its update wouldn't install on Linux devices. It did anyway.
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Last Tuesday, loads of Linux users—many running packages released as early as this year—started reporting their devices were failing to boot. Instead, they received a cryptic error message that included the phrase: “Something has gone seriously wrong.”
This is worth a read, including the comments below the article:
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“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Microsoft said its update wouldn't install on Linux devices. It did anyway.
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Hi Bri... as you know i have always told people to disable Secure boot, whether the distro says you do or do not need to,
I have never trusted it anyway
 
Yes this is all to do with this month's Windows security updates, 6 of which were to fix known [for a while now] Zero day faults grub was one of those.
 
fwiw....

Anyone running Linux Mint, and who also has (wisely) kept the usb which they initially booted form....will find Boot Repair.

on the LIVE usb.

Boot Repair is also available from the Linux Mint Software Manager and also from HERE

""In some situation, you might loose access to one or several of your operating systems, because of a buggy update, a bootloader problem, or after installing a new OS (e.g. installing Windows breaks Linux bootloader).

Boot-Repair is a graphical tool that will repair these problems, generally by reinstalling GRUB, which then restores access to the operating systems you had installed before the issue.

Boot-Repair also has advanced options to reinstall GRUB, add kernel options, or restore a generic MBR.""
 
Maybe i'm getting this wrong but i've abandonned the idea of interfering with Windows long ago since all my machines now support GPT/uEFI and hence these support multiple ESP partitions anyway, even 1 dedicated to rEFInd that is finding my USB external drive in real-time when connected. Be "polite" was the primary directive at 1st, then leave it there and ignore felt appropriate so far and when it's finally broken (as all Microsoft OS installs normally do, eventually) i'll just recover more space i guess.
 
« Microsoft update breaks GrUB on dual-boot systems »

Not on my Dull NoteBook as i decided to leave its Microsoft setup totally independent after "politely" recovering ~66 % of the storage space, which proved being plenty for my evaluation of a handful Linux evaluations. The one thing though that actually interfered, before such partition resizing, happened to be the BitLocker feature and that's exactly what i mean by insisting over staying polite until done, then once Win11's own partitioning tool released the desired space i went to that machine's "BiOS Setup", accessed the "Boot Configuration" tab, verified both the "Enable Secure Boot" & "Enable Microsoft UEFi CA" items that i left On (untouched), but did have to change "Secure Boot Mode" to [ Audit Boot Mode ] which reads as follows:

Performs a signature check but does not block execution of all UEFi drivers and bootloaders. Use this mode when making modifications to Secure Boot keys.​

Maybe there was also some intervention related to the BitLocker thing but i just don't recall anymore. All i can tell after revisiting my "BiOS Setup" minutes ago is that « Full Secure Boot » would seem to use/require "Deployed Mode" instead. In any case at reboot time there's now a message saying « Headless Operation Active » right before the non-Windows EFi System Partition i've previously selected is accessed, so at the moment that's one additional "ESP" dedicated to the fine accessory tool 'rEFInd' which actually remembers my last choice of Linux spin quite conveniently besides finding my external YUMi-exFAT USB drive if connected.

Call me lazy, i ain't in a hurry to go forward with the next step as it's only been a few months and i see no urgent incentive to risk turning another laptop into one more brick again...

Sometimes life is that good i guess!

:cool:


P.S.: Would someone in the staff please consider increasing proof-reading time to 10 minutes or so?? I get tired of getting the « Last edited: a moment ago » comment automatically with each new post...
 
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Malware is known to delete or corrupt data, this type of malware is called a virus, virus unlike trojan horse doesn't grant any remote access to hacker, instead it simply deletes data, crashes the system or does some other similar damage to computer or end user.

What M$ therefore does to GRUB is malicious behavior, MS software IS malware, virus to be precise and M$ is conducting malicious attacks according to definition of a virus:

A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.
Click to expand...
en.wikipedia.org

Computer virus - Wikipedia

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Heh. Reminds me of the old 'saw' from the Windows '95 era.....

Windows was at that time frequently described as; “32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand one single bit of competition.”

It's as true today as it ever was.......and is why anyone with a lick of sense will keep the two as far away from each other as is humanly possible. Dual-booting 'twixt Windows and any other OS will forever be a tug-of-war.....


Mike. ;)
 
Threads merged.

Remember to search the forum before posting, thanks.
 
Deal with Windows "politely" or it will kick back. Why the fuss on modern machines supporting multiple UEFi ESPs anyway?? My new Dull NoteBook has as many of those as i got different Linux flavours installed and each of them has a boot menu acting as backup for the previous one(s), e.g. ALL providing an alternative path to Win11 which was pre-installed...
 
That's odd, i didn't disable Secure Boot and much less touched Microsoft's ESP, yet all is fine, except after resizing its main partition it eventually started complaining for a lack of space because of updates - which could as well prove (intentionally) fatal since i got no use for Win11 on my Dull NoteBook and wouldn't actually mind having a few hundred more Giga-bytes! Win11 be gone, all without agravation, at worst boot order needs to be remodified after it was changed, by Linux... But nothing grandiose requiring the magic spells.
 
Greetings from one of the unaffected.
This certainly sounds like it is not a very good idea to have Linux and Windows on the same machine.
If you must have Windows for some reason, shell out what it takes to get a late model machine that runs Win 11.
If one can afford it, get an older machine and install Linux on it to use as your daily driver. {That's part of the beauty of Linux - the machine has longer-lasting usability}.
I've been using Linux Mint now for about 10 years {time sure flies}, and would not go back to Microsoft for any reason.
LM supplies all my computer needs.
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