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Originally Posted by Ritho
What are the advantages to using EasyBCD? I have been thinking about trying out BURG as it makes the grub menu look really slick, but then you only see that for like 2 seconds so I don't know if it is that big of a deal.
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Advantage of EasyBCD? Its a GUI tool, it's easier to configure that bootmgr assuming that bootmgr can be configured. I've install GRUB in /root, then boot to Windows, open EasyBCD and add a Linux boot entry for sda5 (/root) and I'm done.
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Originally Posted by wdhpr
I think I may have snapped up one of the last computers preloaded with XP. Therefore I have no hands on experience with Vista Or Win 7. I completely skipped Vista  and will be switching to Win 7 very soon and hopefully skipping most of the painful experiences that come with a brand new distro.
From what I have read from Jojoyee posts it appears Vista and Win 7 use a different MBR from XP. I have seen posts that address dual booting with vista and linux but I did not read them so I don't know how the new Vista boot sequence would deal with the bootsect.lnx file. I would prefer to install grub to the root directory keeping my mbr clean. I guess I will start checking into different methods of dual booting Win7 very soon. |
I skipped Vista too, actually I never really bothered upgrading a Windows OS (pricey), just that I use whatever OS that came pre-installed in my PC and 7 was pre-installed in this newly bought one. After that, I install the OS I truly want to use.
Vista/7 uses bootmgr instead of boot.ini and if you're using EasyBCD, just point it to the /root partition where you've installed GRUB in and everything just works after that, no need for bootsect.lnx anymore.
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Originally Posted by Jojoyee
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Really interesting guide, I used to think that booting was from BIOS to MBR to OS. Thanks!
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