After using virtual machines and wubi for the last few years I finally took the time to install ubuntu in a dual boot.
I read a ton of tutorials, but they all recommended different things.
So I figured that the option "Install ubuntu along windows" would be a pretty safe and solid choice else it shouldn't be offered. I already had a second partition for my data, so there was no need for that.
Now after a succesfull installation (not really sure about, hence my question), I get the grub bootloader on startup and I have an option to also boot windows.
Is this the preferred setup? I read a lot that grub should be installed on a different partition and that windows should take care of booting. Is this true? Will windows updates break my installation?
After some searching I found that I could use easybcd as seen on http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Ubuntu to use the windows boot loader. Won't it overwrite the GRUB in MBR?
Thank you in advance