Carlos E. R. composed on 2014-11-17 19:44 (UTC+0100):
On the other hand, the solution your friend suggested, creating a /boot partition is correct.
+1
But I would create it with ext2 (two).
+1
Although no need to shrink /windows, it can be anywhere.
Yes, but ...
Even a logical partition works.
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