Vista/Linux

[EndGame]

Has anyone tried or had any luck finding a way to allow Any distro to successfully boot with Vista except by using a floppy? So far I've tried Ubuntu, Suse, Gentoo and both Grub and Lilo but it will not work. Grub/Lilo either overwrites BCD and thus Vista is unbootable or you fix Vista and Grub/Lilo is gone............

There's got to be someone more expeirienced/smarter than me that has figured this out but I've searched high/low and can not find anything that works. Tried editing Grub/Lilo and BCD but nothing seems to be successfull............

 

[spyordie007]

I havent played around with it yet but shouldnt be a big problem (so long as you arent using bitlocker). Here is an article on it:
http://beuchelt.blogdns.net:8080/2006/0...a+Build+5342+Dual+Boot+With+Linux.aspx

 

[EndGame]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
I havent played around with it yet but shouldnt be a big problem (so long as you arent using bitlocker). Here is an article on it:
http://beuchelt.blogdns.net:8080/2006/0...a+Build+5342+Dual+Boot+With+Linux.aspx

That's one of the pieces of advice I've tried...........to no avail. Like the author said, it booted fine and I got the Vista option one time but after that, I got "boot time failure" and viola.........Vista was gone after that. I believe that was omitted from that article plus, I'm not sure what he used is what is packaged with the public release of Vista......

 

[beuchelt]

This is interesting - it has been a while that I wrote that article, but I remember that you had to be VERY careful about not going into any autmated repair, since Vista would automatically re-write the MBR and re-install bootmgr.

I have not been playing with this setup lately, but I am planning on updating the article. Also, if there is enough interest, I am toying with the idea to make it work the other way 'round (i.e. have bootmgr on the MBR and load Solaris from there).

Gerald

http://beuchelt.blogdns.net:8080/

 

[EndGame]

Originally posted by: beuchelt
This is interesting - it has been a while that I wrote that article, but I remember that you had to be VERY careful about not going into any autmated repair, since Vista would automatically re-write the MBR and re-install bootmgr.

I have not been playing with this setup lately, but I am planning on updating the article. Also, if there is enough interest, I am toying with the idea to make it work the other way 'round (i.e. have bootmgr on the MBR and load Solaris from there).

Gerald

http://beuchelt.blogdns.net:8080/

Thanks Gerald!

Like I said, I've been working on this awhile now to no avail.......like you said, Vista will overwrite Linux installer if you do a "fix" but, after installing Linux, you have no access to Vista so at this point, there's really no alternative.