Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #379348
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 379348

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delance (olivier-delance) wrote :

Sorry, but Windows has more picky requirements than Ubuntu. Try to do a multi-boot with many Windows OS and you will understand.

Ubuntu does not need a /boot partition, because it is not yet launched. It is the multi-boot software, GRUB, which will launch Windows or Linux, who is located in this partition.

Your solution will work only with people who have a legal XP CD-ROM, perhaps 1% today. 99% have windows pre-installed with a recovery partition and can not install windows from CD-ROM. So the easiest solution for a laptop is to remains recovery partition and windows partition untouched, and to put GRUB and Ubuntu after.

In French Ubuntu documentation, there is half-dozen web page how to make a Windows/Linux multi-boot. It is not an easy issue.

One solution would be to propose to make a recovery CD-R/Usb key to save the MBR and restore it when a problem arise.