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Question #74437 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/74437

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Hi :)

sda2 is an "Extended Partition", which i think of as a bucket that
contains all the "Logical" partitions inside it.  A hard-drive can only
have 4 "Primary" partitions so this fudge was made of making one of
those a bucket that could hold lots of other partitions.  So sda2
contains sda5 & sda6.

The start and end values are all slightly meaningless to us because they
are based on "cylinders" rather than GB or MB but it looks as though one
of the main troubles is that the hard-drive is too small for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu really needs 15Gb, the good news is that Xubuntu is pretty much
the same but might well fit the space better :)

Ok, in a terminal console type

free -m

and give us the result in here so that we can see how much ram you have.
this will help us see how much linux-swap you need.  At the moment
that's sda6.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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