Ubuntu

[John Summerfield]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Croombe F. Pensom wrote:
>> I had exactly the same problem when I tried it and discovered that
>> Ubuntu is rather fussy and seems to require that only itself be on the
>> system otherwise, as you say, grub gets clobbered somehow.
>>
>> Croombe
>>
>>   
>    Ubuntu will live happy with all other systems IF you make Ubuntu 
> setup on it's own partition and then start it with a "chainload +1".

which is how you should always multiboot Linux.

One has the MBR (or you have the standard MBR that boots the first 
active partition). Others go to their partition.


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