Comment 5 for bug 610898

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Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote : Re: "No such device" - grub-pc update renders computer unbootable

I had what is perhaps a silly thought about this. Since I haven't been able to really do a full Wubi install recently I'm just working from memory but I think Wubi performs a "post-install" process and I wonder if it wouldn't be possible for the Wubi devs to have the packages "grub", "grub-pc", and "grub-common" locked during that post-install procedure?

Consider these two earlier bugs:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/477104?comments=all

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lupin/+bug/477169?comments=all

Why update grub at all in Wubi?

Admittedly I'm not a Wubi fan because I live in a rural area where power outages are common and raise havoc with the Wubi FS, but I honestly wonder if Wubi installs shouldn't default to only security updates?

Is that even possible?