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Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system
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On Monday 11 August 2008, Jason W. Morgan wrote:

> it seems that
> each time Ubuntu decides it needs to perform a significant update, it
> replaces the GRUB config with the default, making FreeBSD once again
> inaccessible. There is probably a way to prevent this, but I never
> got around to investigating it.

I'd be inclined to install GRUB on FreeBSD from ports and remove it from 
the Ubuntu system. FreeBSD won't mess with your GRUB config files.

-- 
Mike Clarke