Thanks for the heads up. I'm running Win10 and Ubuntu 14.04. I don't believe I've yet been offered the Anniversary Upgrade, but when I am, I will proceed very cautiously (or not at all).
Virgil On 12/01/2016 09:17 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > > This is not about LO but about MS crashing both the Windows file > system and GRUB. > > If you have not run the Windows 10 Anniversary upgrade, you might want > to consider it as a new OS install that crashes GRUB and messes with > the Windows partition where it need major repair. > > Yesterday, I upgraded my older DELL laptop that runs both Windows 10 > and Ubuntu 16.04. > > Win10 gave me a icon for the Anniversary Upgrade Assistant. IT took > hours for the download and verify it. During the install, at about > 30% complete, the install required a reboot. GRUB errors was all I > got. I had to use a boot repair disk twice to get the laptop to be > able to boot at all. When I was able to boot to Windows, it took > about 20 minutes for Windows to auto-fix the file system. Then it took > 6 more hours to finish the install. It took less time to install the > Win7 to Win10 upgrade, than it took the Anniversary upgrade. > > Yes, MS messes with the GRUB system when it gets install alongside of > Ubuntu, but it never caused so much trouble as it did yesterday > afternoon to late evening. 6+ hours to install the upgrade and fix > the laptop so it would boot again, was not expected. > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
