Comment 9 for bug 148840

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NW (northwest) wrote :

>you can boot off of a USB stick, floppy or CD ROM that provides the 1st stage of GRUB
I prefer wiping the drive and installing Ubuntu before Vista, as that works and lets me boot without a dongle.

Grub doesn't seem to handle a drive partitioned by Vista's installer, and Ubuntu's installer doesn't handle a GRUB failure very well, so what can I do to help fix both of those?