Visual Studio 2010 Grub 2 Boot loader MBR corruption

Question

I am dual booting windows 7 x64 and Ubuntu Linux with grub 2 as the boot loader.  When I use Visual studio in windows alot, the bootloader gets damaged, and the computer fails to boot (discovered when restarting) untill it is repaired.

I don't think this is a linux problem, I think visual studio 2010 in windows is writing to the extended MBR, as part of the license manager stuff perhaps, and breaking Grub. This is a known problem with license manager behavior.

Please confirm or deny this accusation. 

Thanks

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errold32

Answer 1

it's impossible. You need find a way to fix grub, but i think it is not VS's fault

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NEU_ShieldEdge

Answer 2

Impossible? Explain then, because it keeps happening. Anyone else who works on visual studio have any input?

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errold32

Answer 3

Hi ErroId32,

The visual studio will not write MBR, so it is not a VS development issue.

I recommend you to write a new post to http://connect.microsoft.com forum. Microsoft engineers will evaluate them seriously, thanks.

 

Best regards,

Lucy

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Lucy Liu [MSFT]
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