• themelm
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    1 year ago

    Windows 7 used to thunderfuck grub at random every few updates just to keep everyone on their toes.

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        1 year ago

        UEFI boot is why this happens. In MBR, Windows doesn’t check or update the MBR magic, thus GRUB is left alone.

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      1 year ago

      Installed in MBR mode 🤨? Cuz Win7 does support GPT, but not UEFI boot AFAIK.

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        1 year ago

        Don’t remember choosing. Feel like uefi was new fangled at the time.

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          1 year ago

          You don’t choose. If the installer boots in UEFI, it installs the OS in UEFI, if it boots in MBR, it installs in MBR. The same logic applies to both Windows and Linux.