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   From: Richard Steven Hack    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:19:41 +0100, Goeroeboeroe wrote:   
      
   > Op Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:32:44 +0000, schreef Richard Steven Hack:   
   >    
   >> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:37:17 +0000, Slip Kid wrote:   
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   >>> Related, I also may have a non-standard MBR on the FAT partition (C:\).   
   >>> It 'is' FAT...but I 'replaced' the "Dell" MBR on the 'rescue' partition    
   >>> & copied one from MBRWiz.   
   >>    
   >> Oops, you're using Dell. All bets are off. Dell is CRAP. As far as I know,   
   >> the Dell MBR is nonstandard, but since you've already messed with it,   
   >> probably there will be no affect on GRUB. I wouldn't worry about it. I   
   >> wouldn't be surprised if GRUB even picks up the Dell utilities partition   
   >> and adds it to its boot menu.   
   >    
   > I installed Ubuntu and Kubuntu a few times on my Dell. I could replace the   
   > mbr simply with fixmbr from the recovery console.   
   > Grub didn't pick up the Dell utilities partition, you have to go into   
   > there while booting with, if I remember well, F12. But since I'm now   
   > completely over to Kubuntu I removed the utilities partition.   
   > But Grub leaves the utilities partition alone.   
      
   Yeah, I guess Grub doesn't recognize such a partition because it's sort of   
   non-standard. I've never tried using Grub to boot anything but Windows and   
   Linux.    
      
   Good reason not to buy Dell in general. Like one of the guys on Slashdot   
   likes to say, "Dude! You bought a Dell!" (As in, "That was your first   
   mistake!")   
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