I am using grub as default boot loader for my dual boot laptop (DELL Vostro 3750). My system is currently undergoing a reboot loop (infinite) because of Windows Update 3033929.
As described here:
Some users cannot install this security update if their computers meet the following conditions: Have a multiple-boot configuration of Windows and various distributions of Linux
A possible solution seems to be:
To work around that issue, you can either use Windows as the default boot loader
A lot of articles describe how to set Windows as default grub entry upon start but that is entierely different from what is described as possible solution.
So could someone please describe a working solution (step-by-step) to install Windows Update 3033929
on a dual boot system (grub 1.99-27+deb7u2 with: debian wheezy and windows 7/64bits). Both partitions reside on the same disk, respectively: sda5
and sda2
, so I cannot use the solution described here.
A possible solution which I found online was to remove grub completely, but that seems like an overkill solution (also I would not even know how to re-install it afterward). I would like to also avoid a solution as listed here where grub boot loader is removed and replaced by Windows 7's "bootmgr"
.