[dundee] multi boot

[Nistur]

@Digit I haven't looked into Virtualisation yet as I thought that it would
be more hassle than having separate installs, assuming I get some bootloader
to play nice. If it comes to that I may go for virtualisation though.

@azmodie I'll have a look at that, certainly looks like a possibility,
thanks

Now I need to get my backside in gear and make sure I've got everything
ready to format :)

Nistur

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Digit (SG) <digit.siljrath at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> is it really necesary for u to have them on seperate boots?   have you
> looked into virtualisation options?
> that way it's easier to keep microsoft contained.
> treat windows like a virus if possible i say.  hehe.
>
> http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com
>
>
> 2008/6/30 Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com>:
>
>> Cool, I might try GAG then, I was going to comment on the name... but it's
>> not even much worse than GRUB :P
>> My problem was the Vista bootloader mainly liking to steal the XP one. I
>> don't know by reading the sf page whether GAG will help with that but I just
>> found this
>> http://www.zezula.net/en/fstools/bcdeditor.html
>> that may be of assistance to me :D The only problem would then be claiming
>> the XP bootloader back for use in XP as I believe Vista replaces the XP
>> one...
>>
>> We shall see. I'm not round to that yet. I think I will probably wait
>> until I have my nice shiny new DX10 card so I don't have to mess around too
>> much with drivers and such.
>>
>> @RJLadyman: Vista + Linux isn't a problem (apart from the fact it's Vista)
>> It's Vista + XP + Linux. I don't really want to have to go through 2 layers
>> of bootloader to boot an M$ OS, I just want options in whatever bootloader I
>> choose to use for each OS and to boot straight from there
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:00 PM, gordon dunlop <
>> astrozubenel at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I use GAG boot manager which can handle 2 hard disks and 9 operating
>>> systems
>>> http://gag.sourceforge.net/pics.html
>>> I put grub or Lilo on the O.S. partition and use GAG. It works with
>>> Vista & XP detecting the NTFS partition and booting via GAG. I have
>>> just recently installed GAG on a relative's new computer so they can
>>> boot into Vista or Linux Mint.
>>>
>>> Gordon
>>>
>>> 2008/6/30 Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com>:
>>> > 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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