As far as I know Vista refuse to boot if he finds a different bootloader in the MBR
Works here without problems... I suggest to install Vista on the first primary partition. When i had it on another one, booting took much more time...
Heres how i do it:
- Vista partition is /dev/hda1 (formatted using the vista installer) and Arch root is /dev/hda5
- Install Vista
- Boot from Arch CD
- Enter the following commands:
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt (if you have a separate /usr, also mount it)
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
grub-install /dev/hda (this will re-use the existing grub config)
exit
reboot
After booting into arch i just had to add a Grub-entry for vista:
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
btw, this is mostly taken from the Wiki entry
]]>PD: Sorry for my lousy English and greetings from Venezuela.
]]>I got some Linux vfat-formatted devices that don't run on Windows but do run on Linux (my cell phone's micro SD for example). Then again, I don't care about Windows not reading my stuff .
]]>always worked for me with xp, and as far as I heard it works with vista.
note that windows is sometimes picky abouth which partition it wants to be able to boot on. sometimes it failed on me on extended partitions, and sometimes it absolutely wanted to be in sda1, else (in both cases) it failed to configure its own bootloader, and failed to boot again. even gentoo's ultrabuggy gtk installer works better. ridiculous.
]]>If I create another partition to install vista on, and have a LiveCD standing by to reinstall GRUB afterwards, is there anything else that I need to be looking out for?
It seems like I shouldn't have to wipe out my current system just to install another OS---or is that just the way it is?
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