Will wrote:
[color=blue]
> Yes I'm aware that works because the Grub bootloader sets "boot.ini" in
> it's boot up process but vista uses a file called "BCD" for it's boot
> up and I'm not sure the grub bootloader will recognise vista's BCD
>
> I'm going to install vista on another pc then also load ubuntu on it and
> I'll see how I go with that before I try it on my main pc
>
> "farid" <farid@cyber.net.pk> wrote in message
> news:0D6AF1E2-FAE6-4DB3-96C1-FEC5725174A2@microsoft.com...
>[/color]

Will:

If you want to have a single boot loader for all your OS's, I would
highly recommend BootIt NG (BING). I have not tried it with Linux (on my
TODO list) but it can boot all Windows OS's in exactly the same way, and
completely independently of each other. No need to know anything about
autoexec.bat, boot.ini, the BCD store or any of that stuff.

I do know that to use BING with Linux, you need to persuade your Linux
installation to put GRUB on the boot sector of the root partition, not
in the MBR. For most distributions this requires some kind of custom
installation.

David Wilkinson