Dual Boot? In Build 5219


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I installed build 5219 so that I could test it for MS, but i needed to install linux for my work so i installed it on my second hd. I was expecting to be able to easily boot into my vista hd using grub, but when I attempt to boot on that partition, windows gives me something like "Could not load NTLDR". I know I was able to fix a similar error in Win XP through the recovery console, but vista doesn't have the console anymore. Is there any way to fix this error? Has anyone else successfully dual booted vista?

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I installed build 5219 so that I could test it for MS, but i needed to install linux for my work so i installed it on my second hd.  I was expecting to be able to easily boot into my vista hd using grub, but when I attempt to boot on that partition, windows gives me something like  "Could not load NTLDR".  I know I was able to fix a similar error in Win XP through the recovery console, but vista doesn't have the console anymore.  Is there any way to fix this error? Has anyone else successfully dual booted vista?

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There is no recovery console, per se, that I've found. If you boot to the Vista DVD, you will be given an option to fix Startup problems (or something like that). The problem is that they appear to have added a layer on top of NTLDR (that initial boot screen that comes up). I have XP/Vista dual booting on both of my machines, but not Linux.

I'm going to have to do some research and try to figure out what that new boot loader is, and how to access it directly.

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Yah, the fix startup problems thing just told me it was unable to fix it -- i think it said it was because it didn't recognize the ext3 filesystem that i am running on my second drive.

I think my vista drive may be slave, so maybe if i switch it to master then it will be able to fix the mbr or whatever is causing the issue.

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So I tried fixing it with the vista drive as master. It didn't work. So i reinstalled vista on the disk I had it on before and booted into it. It doesn't look like there is a way to configure the boot options.

So does anyone know of a way to setup grub to boot into vista or to setup vista's boot manager to boot into linux?

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i've been trying to figure out a way to multi-boot with xp, vista 5219, and suse 10 for days

i can set up dual boot between xp and either of the other two with no problem, but adding the third always messes things up

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