Windows Vista Boot Partition Restrictions

[n3urotic]

Hey guys, to those who installed Vista successfully, does Windows Vista Beta 1 still rely on there being a boot.ini located on a C:\ drive on the primary hard disk?

If so does this C:\ have to exist as a primary partition in the first X mbytes of the primary drive?

I only have 1 drive available for OSes, I had to nuke my gentoo partitions to get vista and xp on there.

My setup goes like this, in order from block 0:

0-70MB -> Not allocated, intended for /boot

71-20070MB-> C:\ and this is where windows vista will be installed

20071MB-30000MB-> D:\ this is where windows xp will go

30000MB+ this is where my \ and \home and swap will go

Will this setup work?

Also when I mucked up marking the Vista drive as C: (it defaulted to H:) for some reason, my Vista install failed to boot on first boot, instead spat out some grub stage 1.5 error, does this mean Windows Vista use grub now? (wow that would be a huge improvement over boot.ini). Please advise how Windows Vista handles boot and if my setup would work.

Thanks in advance.