On Monday 09 April 2007 20:54, Sergio Gelato wrote: > Installing GRUB into the MBR in those conditions disables the BIOS' > "boot to utility partition" functionality. It's not a major loss > (one can boot from the Dell diagnostics CD instead), just slightly > inelegant. Don't worry too much about it. Can you provide us with any information on how such a partition could be reliably detected?