On 2016-04-21 16:00, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Neil Rickert <> wrote:
That creates the file "altmbr.4" which is based on the syslinux "altmbr.bin" generic boot code. It will always boot partition 4, regardless of the active flag.
Wow! :-o :-) Very interesting!
But that's basically the same as installing bootloader (e.g. GRUB) in MBR, in which case you can also set active flag to any partition. Still there were reports that in this case Windows will refuse updates sometimes. May be MBR was not the only change though and both MBR and active partition were changed at the same time.
Well... I will try Neil's method first, and see what happens in a month or two. The problem updates are not all, and it is unknown in advance when a W10 update will cause this problem, so even if this method appears to work at first it will be no proof. Only if I see a service pack update will I know if it works. If it doesn't, I will then revert and use easyBCD instead. I will try this tonight. Thanks! If I forget to comment back in a month or two, ping me. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)