In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

What I did to solve it is to manually select partitions and make it one megabyte smaller, so I didn't use the full partition. After that the problem didn't show up anymore. I hope such problems won't ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...