[TriLUG] EasyBCD

[Ron Joffe]

Brian,

Why not utilize vmware ? It will let you run both os's at the same time, 
remove any boot loader issues, etc,etc .

Ron



On Tuesday 11 September 2007 23:14, Brian C. Hicks wrote:
> After doing some reading, grub is probably best.  EasyBCD basically uses
> the new Vista bootloader.  The only real advantage I see to this is that
> you would not have to reinstall grub after Vista writes over the MBR.  When
> my drives arrive tomorrow I'll be able to play.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
> It sounds pretty cool, but why is grub not good enough?
>
> Peace,
> Andrew
>
> On 9/11/07, Brian C. Hicks <bhicks1 at nc.rr.com
>
> <http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug> > wrote:
> > Has anyone used this boot manager?  My HD on my Suse system died and I
> > was hoping to create a multiboot system with my new HD I just ordered.  I
> > need some experience with Vista, so the goal is to create multiboot
> > system running openBSD, ubuntu, gentoo and Vista.  There is a lot of
> > information out there as far as using Ranish/XOSL to dual boot XP and
> > *nix but not so much on Vista and the new NT bootloader with BSD and
> > *nix.  I found this
> > http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/easybcd-17-released-up-for-download/(EasyBC
> >D
>
> <http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/easybcd-17-released-up-for-download/%28EasyB
>C D> )
>
> > and was wondering if anyone has used it or if anyone has suggestions for
> > creating a multiboot system with the above mentioned OS's.
> >
> >
> >
> > Brian Hicks
> >
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