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   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   Alex Taylor wrote:   
   > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 03:46:45 UTC, Steve Wendt  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>> some versions of Linux don't get along well with other operating   
   >>>>> systems).   
   >>>   
   >>> I have seen reports that Ubuntu is not entirely friendly.   
   >>   
   >> Got any links?  I'm curious to know what the complaints are.  There's no   
   >> reason for it to be any worse than other distros.   
   >   
   > The volume of complaints with Ubuntu may have more to do with it being   
   > such a common Linux distro, rather than the problems being with Ubuntu   
   > specifically.   
   >   
   > That said, I think the most common complaint was that Ubuntu makes it   
   > harder than usual to install GRUB to the boot partition (which is   
   > necessary in order to play nice with Boot Manager) instead of to the   
   > MBR.   
      
   Ubuntu has improved in this respect, now giving a choice where to    
   install grub. Even before when it insisted on putting grub in the mBR it    
   wouldn't have been bad if Ubuntu had done the right thing and added Boot    
   Manager to the grub menu.   
      
   >   
   > Whatever Ubuntu uses for its partitioning software has also been   
   > observed to do some very nasty things to the disk layout from OS/2's   
   > perspective.  OTOH, that's always been something of a problem with   
   > Linux-based partitioning tools, at least the ones which trace their   
   > ancestry back to the old 'fdisk'.   
   >   
      
   I tried to install the latest Ubuntu, being very careful to do all my    
   partitioning ahead of time. It still did something nasty to my partition    
   tables.   
   Dave   
      
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