[dundee] multi boot

[R J Ladyman]

Er...I have a Vista PC with Linux on it and it works just fine: Windows never 
asksa anything extra. Install Vista first, then your linux.

Perhaps I've misunderstood



On Monday 30 June 2008 20:44:29 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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