Ridesy

Phil,

Pop along to the Pronetworks forum and download the Vista Boot pro programme
then post on their forum, as these guys no more about dual/multi boot issues
with vista than anyone I know!

It sounds like the BCD path needs editing to point at the same drive for
both Vista and XP, but as I say these guys are much more knowledgeable than I.

Ridesy

"newsnet@gmail.com" wrote:

> Partitioned HDD originally with XP + Linux now XP + Vista + Linux
> (installed in that order) all three OS now work happily if booted
> separately with GRUB boot loader.
>
> Selecting Vista from GRUB (behaviour was same before adding Linux /
> GRUB) the Vista Boot Manager presents Vista and XP options but if I
> select XP option I am recycled back to the same Boot Manager option
> screen.
>
> It is as if the Vista boot manager thinks XP is where Vista actually
> is and hence boots into itself again. Selecting Vista works as
> expected. XP previously failed with missing NTLDR error fixed with
> Easy BCD by selecting the "F:" drive for the legacy OS.
>
> It bugs me to see references to C: and F: in configurations when these
> are partitions that Windows renames at the drop of the hat, so below
> Vista's C: drive is XP's F: drive etc.
>
> Viewed from XP (partition 1) :-
>
> C: has ntldr, boot.ini etc
> F: has bootmgr and the /BOOT directory
>
> Running from XP :-
>
> F:\Windows\System32>bcdedit
>
> Windows Boot Manager
> --------------------
> identifier {bootmgr}
> device partition=F:
> description Windows Boot Manager
> locale en-US
> inherit {globalsettings}
> default {default}
> displayorder {default}
> {d2b28d04-b902-11db-ad28-001195c8bc7c}
> toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
> timeout 30
>
> Windows Boot Loader
> -------------------
> identifier {default}
> device partition=F:
> path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
> description Microsoft Windows Vista
> locale en-US
> inherit {bootloadersettings}
> osdevice partition=F:
> systemroot \Windows
> resumeobject {fd438835-b8b2-11db-a847-a1fa7ab7e25e}
> nx OptIn
>
> Windows Legacy OS Loader
> ------------------------
> identifier {d2b28d04-b902-11db-ad28-001195c8bc7c}
> device partition=C:
> path \ntldr
> description Windows XP
>
> I would like to get Windows handling the two boot options properly for
> future use in dual boot situations without using GRUB.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Phil
>
>