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Help with Triple Boot

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obeseotron

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So I've basically got my system setup for triple boot XP Pro, Vista x64, and Fedora Core 7 Linux. I have 1 drive in this box, 3 partitions. I first installed XP on parition 1, then Vista on partition 2. Instead of just making partition 2 bootable, Vista overwrote partition 1's boot sector. This means partition 1 starts the Vista boot menu, not XP and partition 2 fails to boot. I installed Fedora on parition 3 and GRUB on the mbr. GRUB works fine, but I have to choose Linux or Windows, then which Windows version in a second menu. I know how to edit the GRUB config files, GRUB isn't the problem, it's the partitions themselves.

To sum up the menu acts like this now:
Boot to Partition 1 (XP) - Brings up the Vista boot menu, from which I choose XP or Vista.
Boot to Partition 2 (Vista) - Failure
Boot to Partition 3 (Linux) - Linux

I want each option to just boot the OS installed on the partition. I DON"T want to overwrite the drive's MBR, which is fine.
 
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