Vista - BitLocker & Linux Dual Booting

Some people have been asking about this, here's some information for those
who are interested:

http://blogs.technet.com/voy/archive...m-support.aspx

http://port25.technet.com/archive/20...M-Support.aspx

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Jamie Hunter [MS]

Hey-

Right now I am dual booting winxp and vista. 2 drives, works great. I wiped
ubuntu to install vista and would like to tri-boot, winxp, vista and ubuntu.
My though is, I will create a second partiton on the vista drive, and just
install ubuntu to that partition. My question is will vistas bootloader
recognize and properly load ubuntu without grub? If I choose to allow vista
to manage MBR...

C
"Jamie Hunter [MS]" <jamiehun@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Some people have been asking about this, here's some information for those
> who are interested:
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/voy/archive...m-support.aspx
>
> http://port25.technet.com/archive/20...M-Support.aspx
>
> --
> Jamie Hunter [MS]
>

Something I've done on some of my BitLocker installs is to put XP on the
"Active" partition, which allows Vista to be on the non-active partition,
which can very well be a Logical Drive.
I'm not sure what the requirements are for Linux, but you can do 3-way boot
very easily with just physical partitions. Which sounds like what you've
configured.

BOOTMGR allows booting of "boot PE images" (Vista), NTLDR style images (XP)
and 16-bit boot blocks... the latter is your best bet for Linux. Cyril used
this technique to boot Grub (see links below). I believe you can use this
technique to boot the linux boot sector directly, but I need to play with
that. From what I can tell, bootpart may help here (just take the changes to
boot.ini and then configure bootmgr to do the same thing).
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Jamie Hunter [MS]

"Cheddarhead" <cheddarhead@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:F4D5A4FB-3D70-45D6-9272-CD09F18943D7@microsoft.com...
> Hey-
>
> Right now I am dual booting winxp and vista. 2 drives, works great. I
> wiped ubuntu to install vista and would like to tri-boot, winxp, vista and
> ubuntu. My though is, I will create a second partiton on the vista drive,
> and just install ubuntu to that partition. My question is will vistas
> bootloader recognize and properly load ubuntu without grub? If I choose to
> allow vista to manage MBR...
>
> C
> "Jamie Hunter [MS]" <jamiehun@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:50158F24-A4DC-4283-AD03-222E04F0B840@microsoft.com...
>> Some people have been asking about this, here's some information for
>> those who are interested:
>>
>> http://blogs.technet.com/voy/archive...m-support.aspx
>>
>> http://port25.technet.com/archive/20...M-Support.aspx
>>
>> --
>> Jamie Hunter [MS]
>>
>