Ubuntu & XP dual boot

[t31os]

Been reading various guides on the web today, and 1 video which seem to show a seemingly easy method in which they used the Grub Boot Loader, however the written guides around the web seem to advise against letting this write to the MBR, and provide extra long methods which seem to overcomplicate the process.

As far as i can tell, i create a ready partition for Ubuntu, create a swap area for Ubuntu, then create an ext3 partition for Ubuntu and give it a boot flag....etc...

Its pretty much all straight forward from there, until it wants to use GRUB, which is when i'm pretty unclear on.

Is there anyone here that can advise on wether using the GBL would be fine or wether i should use one of the other methods.

Alternatively some links to upto date articles would be helpful, most articles i found referred to older versions of Ubuntu which i'm sure was more problematic then the current release.

I've had a quick look at Ubuntu inside VMWare and i'm already quite impressed with it, but inside VMWare i can't run such things as the extended desktop visuals and beryl, which i really want to see.

Any help, tips or suggestions would be appreciated lads...

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

I had XP/Ubuntu running dual boot before using Grub. It worked just fine for me but I've never used anything else for dual boot so i have no idea if it was good or not.

When i was installing Ubuntu it automatically instealled GRUB when i was setting it up to create dual boot without me telling it to heh

 

[t31os]

Just realised this is supposed to be in the Windows and Software forum, i could have swore i was in there when i posted.

Sorry mods, please move as needed.

Think i'll backup my XP drive (everything else is on seperate drives) and shrink the partition ready for Ubuntu and see how the GRUB works out for me.

I'll play around in VMWare for this evening then give it a shot tomorrow, just really want to give beryl a go since it really looks to p*ss all over Vista visuals.