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Question #46893 on Ubuntu Eee changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+question/46893

    Status: Open => Answered

JohnO proposed the following answer:
note: i'm not an expert on linux but i think i know what has happened

i saw something similar when i installed ubuntu on my 901. It appears
that the eee come with two "disks" - one i(/dev/sda) s 4 gig and the
other (/dev/sdb) is 16G. I think its done like this because the original
eee 701 came with just 4G (sda) and they added a 16G card to the later
models. when you installed ubuntu it detected the bootable OSs on the
sda disk and added them to the boot process. The orignal OSs are the
recovery system and I think a mirror of the eee OS (i think the xandros
eee used a filesystem where only the changes made to the default OS were
made to the local user copy - but I could be wrong here!)

If you want to use the space  on sda you don't need to reinstall - you
can use the partition manager to delete the partitions on sda and make
new one for you to use.

to get rid of the boot options you need to modify the boot loader to
tell it not to show you them, or to reduce the time to wait for a
choice.I think the ubuntu boot manager is grub - so have a look around
for some how-to for that - there is a big manual here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html

hope this helps

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