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   Andy to All   
   Re: advice on hardware purchase   
   09 Feb 11 22:55:41   
   
   omp.os.os2.misc:2855   
   From: "Andy"    
      
   On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 17:07:26 UTC, "Frank Beythien"    
    wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:02:55 UTC "Andy"    
   >  wrote:   
   >    
   > > I have a triple boot Ubuntu, Windows, and eCS system.  No difficulties   
   > > other than getting grub to no be in the MBR.  It never seemed to pose    
   > > a problem to the other OSs on the system.   
   > > Andy   
   > >    
   > Can you post the sequence and tools for partitioning and installing    
   > and how you succeeded to keep grub2 out of the MBR?   
   > I just had trouble with the partition table and Ubuntu 10.10, so I    
   > stopped trying for now.   
   > Ubuntu runs in VBox 1.6.1, that's why I tried to install it.   
   >    
   > CU/2   
   I created a small 7Mb partition that I used to install grub to.  When    
   I attempted to install grub to the partition that I installed Ubuntu    
   into it failed to launch but worked fine once I created the grub    
   partition.   
   Andy   
      
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