<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 2009-06-08 23:32, Colin Watson wrote : <blockquote cite="mid:20090608213212.GI7367@riva.ucam.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">As of tomorrow's daily builds (assuming they build successfully, anyway), GRUB 2 will be the default boot loader for new installations, pursuant to the grub2-as-default discussion at UDS. </pre> </blockquote> GRUB should be in its own partition, tentatively containing repair tools too. This makes Ubuntu or any Linux undestroyable by Windows or anyone. Restoring GRU/Ubuntu would be a most standard setting of a boot flag. Similarly, the swap partition should be a Linux file. This frees the user from swap considerations and opens Linux to dynamic swap size. I once made twin disks and I fell in a trap. I thought Linux would use the only swap partition on the disk. But the swap partition was referenced by UUID. Using both features would make the partition count a statu quo. I, as a Linux sower, find both topics important when I make an installation. </body> </html>