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[Raphael Gradenwitz <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christophe,

Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 00:05 +0000 schrieb
domakmail-ubuntu@xxxxxxxx:
> I'm going to reinstall ubuntu on my sony Z21. The first time I
> installed it (jaunty), I was afraid of "tainted" bios/HD so I
> configure Vista NTLDR to add a grub-legacy entry.

No. Not necessary. That is only needed in very few environments, eg. if
you want to boot from fake-RAID 0 while Vista was already installed
before.

> Now, I read that Grub2 cannot be installed on an extended partition,
> so I don't know what to do.
> 
> How do you do for dual boot with Vista? Have you installed Grub2 on
> the MBR?

Of course!
That is the advantage of Grub2; it scans all available Operating-Systems
without need to interact or to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst by hand

> If not, is there anybody tried to install grub2 on an extended
> partition (on my Z21, it's the same partition that the one where
> ubuntu is installed) ?


Don't be afraid!

You can always get any partition to boot (again), there are plenty of
tools:
You can fix the (windows) mbr with your (windows) installation disk or
you can use the super-grub cd to boot anything you can imagine..(use
google)..

But on this simple one disk installation, you can (should) simply use
grub in your mbr.

Regards,

Raphael