Got an interesting question on this one. Is there any way of setting up a multi-boot system so that the default system on startup is the last one used?
I know that, with Vista or XP the boot partition is likely to be NTFS but even then it might be possible to get it to reference something on a 'shared' part of the disk that could be referenced on shutdown by whatever OS was shutting down. If you get my drift... This is generally because, 9 times out of ten if I'm rebooting my PC (to install something or because something has gone wrong) I will automatically expect it to load whatever I was using and will only realise my error when it starts to load something else. When I'm rebooting specifically to change OS I'm less likely to make this mistake. Timothy Lee Rayner -----Original Message----- From: peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Phil Thompson Sent: 01 July 2009 13:21 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: [Peterboro] Multi-boot tools for Vista PCs As discussed last night.... Having set up some triple boot machines XP/Vista/Ubuntu the best way (for me) to manage it was with Vista's boot loader and EasyBCD to manage the bootloader. The installation sequence was XP (original) followed by Vista on another partition, at which point Vista's boot loader allows for Vista and "older version of Windows" to be booted. I then installed Ubuntu on a 3rd partition but left the disk master boot management alone (forget which option - probably "install grub to partition"). EasyBCD then allowed me to add an entry in the Vista boot manager to fire up the Ubuntu partition which goes into grub. In grub I also have a "get back to vista" entry for those that get lost. The other tool I used was iReboot which is a system tray icon in Windows XP or Vista from which you can select the OS in the boot menu (XP/Vista/Linux) you want to go to with the mouse and initiate a reboot, without having to catch the boot loader and the right spot to make the selection. EasyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 iReboot http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=11 Hopefully helpful for those buying a Vista PC wanting to run a permanent linux dual boot without frightening the horses. Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
