[dundee] multi boot

[Barry Carr]

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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