[lr103476]

Hi everybody,

I do not know if this is the place to post my problem, but I know that some of you are using laptops running linux and most of you like computer (problems :-)).

So, this is the problem. Yesterday, my new Dell laptop arrived and the pre-installed windows worked fine. I noticed the weird 100Meg Dell Utility partition, which I ignored. Immediately I started installing Kubuntu 7.04 which is working really well on this laptop. The bootloader GRUB was installed into the Master Boot Record, which should be OK.

The problem is that windows rewrites the MBR every time it boots which makes the computer unbootable.
So, after every windows boot I have to recover grub using the ubuntu livecd. It seems that the weird Dell Utility partition has something to do with this.

Has anyone experience with Dell laptops and the weird Dell partitions?

Regards, Frank