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. -- Installing next to Windows places Linux beyond 137GB and makes system unbootable (grub error 18). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379348 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
