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OS automatically installs boot record on separate partition
Several months ago, I bought a Dell Inspiron 1545 Notebook. Overall I am very satisfied, and the only issues I ever have are usually my own fault, hehe. One thing which I do not understand, though, is why whenever I install my operating system it installs the bootloader on a separate partition from the operating system.
So far, I have installed two operating systems on this laptop: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit, and Ubuntu 10.04 LHS, 64-bit. Both operating systems required me to install the bootloader on a separate partition. It is only about 100MB partition that it creates, and I kind of like having it separate, but it does cause a few issues. For one, my computer permanently fails whenever it goes into hibernation, because the active partition is only the bootloader, 100mb (not enough space). I currently have hibernation disabled.
My laptop has a RAID driver, if that is related. I was just wondering if there is any way to correct this quirky setting?