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### Running Linux from Vista's bootloader

Martin J Hooper [martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk]

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:07:54 +0000

Anyone point me to any howtos or documents on running Linux from the Windows Vista bootloader..?

I do have a program called EasyBCD which will let me edit said bootloader - I'm at a loss as to where to put the GRUB bootloader so Vista will find it...

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Amit Kumar Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:20:15 +0530

On 2/26/07, Martin J Hooper <martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

    > Anyone point me to any howtos or documents on running Linux from the
    > Windows Vista bootloader..?
    >
    > I do have a program called EasyBCD which will let me edit said
    > bootloader - I'm at a loss as to where to put the GRUB bootloader so
    > Vista will find it...

Why not go the other way round, Let GRUB find your Vista. Install Vista first and then install Linux

This is somehting which works all versions of windows (I have not tried Vista though)

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Martin J Hooper [martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk]

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:33:44 +0000

Amit Kumar Saha wrote:

    > On 2/26/07, Martin J Hooper <martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
    >> Anyone point me to any howtos or documents on running Linux from the
    >> Windows Vista bootloader..?
    >>
    >> I do have a program called EasyBCD which will let me edit said
    >> bootloader - I'm at a loss as to where to put the GRUB bootloader so
    >> Vista will find it...
    >
    > Why not go the other way round, Let GRUB find your Vista.
    > Install Vista first and then install Linux
    >
    > This is somehting which works all versions of windows (I have not
    > tried Vista though)
    >

I've tried that and it didn't seem to work - It's OpenSuse 10.2 if that's relevant.

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Amit Kumar Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:12:18 +0530

Install GRUB on the MBR Be careful with that for Open Suse.Because Open SUSE by default installs GRUB on the root partition.

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Martin J Hooper [martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk]

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:04:46 +0000

Amit Kumar Saha wrote:

    > Install GRUB on the MBR
    > Be careful with that for Open Suse.Because Open SUSE by default
    > installs GRUB on the root partition.

So for eg if I install on hda1 then I need to put GRUB on hda1 rather than hda?

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Amit Kumar Saha [amitsaha.in at gmail.com]

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:44:40 +0530

    >  So for eg if I install on hda1 then I need to put GRUB on hda1 rather

nope u have to install it on the MBR of hda overwrite the windows boot loader

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Predrag Ivanovic [predivan at ptt.yu]

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:14:11 +0100

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:07:54 +0000 Martin J Hooper wrote:

    > Anyone point me to any howtos or documents on running Linux from the
    > Windows Vista bootloader..?

http://wiki.gtwy.net/index.php/Dual_Boot_Vista_and_Linux

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2094892904.html

HTH.

Pedja

    --
    [...]Anyone who gets in between me and my morning coffee should be
       insecure.
                 --RFC 2324

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Martin J Hooper [martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk]

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:17:07 +0000

Predrag Ivanovic wrote:

    > http://wiki.gtwy.net/index.php/Dual_Boot_Vista_and_Linux
    > http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2094892904.html

Cheers - Will look into it!

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Martin J Hooper [martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk]

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:10:25 +0000

Martin J Hooper wrote:

    > Predrag Ivanovic wrote:
    >> http://wiki.gtwy.net/index.php/Dual_Boot_Vista_and_Linux
    >> http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2094892904.html

Sorted it now thanks - Works fine...

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