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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:29:51 -0600   
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   In ,   
   Richard Steven Hack  wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:19:41 +0100, Goeroeboeroe wrote:   
   >    
   > > Op Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:32:44 +0000, schreef Richard Steven Hack:   
   > >    
   > > 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.    
      
   I don't have a Dell, but GRUB has no trouble handing off to the   
   hidden recovery partition on my Sony laptop.  The entry in GRUB's menu   
   file is pretty much the same as it would be for booting Windows.   
      
   title=Boot Vaio Recovery   
   rootnoverify (hd0,0)   
   makeactive   
   chainloader +1   
      
   I commented it out because accidentally selecting it puts me a couple   
   of clicks away from losing all data, but I checked that it works first.   
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