[dundee] multi boot

[Nistur]

@Barry I just so happen to have an Asus mobo :D I haven't had a look at 
that yet but will do. Might not solve the Vista bootloader stealing XP's 
problem but it might make things easier once that's sorted.

@Digit I'm sorry if I caused a misunderstanding. I have tried 
virtualisation in the past, but not as a way of consistently booting 
multiple OSs. I've had virtualbox installed to "play around" with. For 
coding it's not all that much of a problem, however if I'm going to be 
using windows for gaming it would be a significant performance hit, 
unless I had a windows host, which I don't really want (a virus 
controlling my OSs? :P)

I have emailed the university to see how I can get Vista from their MSDN 
stuff (Would rather not pay for it :P) but I'm getting an out of office 
reply... so I guess it will probably have to wait for a few months 
anyway before it gets sorted :(

Thanks again
Nistur

Barry Carr wrote:
> Hi Nustur,
>
> Probably not the answer you're looking for but I've noticed that Asus 
> Mobo's have boot loader built into them, just press F8 on the POST 
> screen and pick your boot drive/device.
>
> Cheers
> Barry
>
> Nistur wrote:
>> Slightly connected with my last thread. I'm going to reformat my PC. 
>> It's a mess and I need *shudder* Vista for DX10 programming next year 
>> and I'm currently backing things up and planning my install 
>> procedures. So far I can forsee a few problems and I wondered whether 
>> anyone knew if they were fixable.
>> I'm wanting to definately have Vista, Linux of some flavour, XP, BSD 
>> and possibly try OSx86 as it claims to work on my hardware (we shall 
>> see) I do not however want the Windows bootloader asking me whether I 
>> want Vista or XP after going past grub. Does anyone know any way of 
>> installing Vista and XP so that they have separate bootloaders? I'm 
>> not quite sure how this would work. Was considering installing one, 
>> changing the filesystem type with a liveCD and installing the other, 
>> but this will probably mess up windows drive letters and things.
>> Does anyone know of any way of installing the two and having them 
>> have their own boot loaders that grub can chainload?
>>
>> Nistur
>>
>>
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