Giuliano Marco
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I've got EasyBCD set up to multi-boot between XP Pro 32, Vista 32, Vista 64 and Fedora 7 - and it works a treat. XP Pro 32, Vista 32 and Fedora 7 are on drive 0. Vista 64 is on drive 1.
Using Partition Magic, I had earlier split drive 0 into 15 partitions (the maximum amount the latest Linux kernels can see, when assigning "sda" for SATA drives). I planned on installing 10 distros; 1 of 24GB and 9 of 8GB.
After adding Fedora to the EasyBCD boot menu, I realised I would only be able to add one more Linux distro, because of the way the partitions are listed in the drop-down menu, like so:
Drive 0
Why would I want so many partitions? Well, I'd like to install a bunch of AMD64 distros I've got to match the 10 i386 distros I've got on my laptop (I don't have Vista on it, so instead of EasyBCD I use Fedora to control the MBR/Grub menu).
I'm not complaining, though - EasyBCD is by far the most hassle-free solution of multi-booting between XP, Vista and Linux I've ever found. Using the native bootloaders, it would mean bouncing between three (XP, Vista & Grub) which is not as elegant as EasyBCD's single menu.
Nice work, CG.
Using Partition Magic, I had earlier split drive 0 into 15 partitions (the maximum amount the latest Linux kernels can see, when assigning "sda" for SATA drives). I planned on installing 10 distros; 1 of 24GB and 9 of 8GB.
After adding Fedora to the EasyBCD boot menu, I realised I would only be able to add one more Linux distro, because of the way the partitions are listed in the drop-down menu, like so:
Drive 0
Partition 0 (HPFS/NTFS - 100GB)
Partition 1 (HPFS/NTFS - 100GB)
Partition 2 (Win95 Fat32 LBA - 5GB)
Partition 3 (Win95 XInt13 extended)
Partition 4 (Linux swap - 2GB)
Partition 5 (Extended - 24GB)
Partition 6 (Linux Native - 24GB)
Partition 7 (Extended - 8GB)
Partition 8 (Linux Native - 8GB)
Partition 9 (Extended - 8GB)
The list stops at Partition 9 - I needed it to go up to Partition 24! (Also, I noticed it didn't give me the choice of selecting drive 1, either.) Is it possible to add more manually? Or increase the table in the next version of EasyBCD?Partition 1 (HPFS/NTFS - 100GB)
Partition 2 (Win95 Fat32 LBA - 5GB)
Partition 3 (Win95 XInt13 extended)
Partition 4 (Linux swap - 2GB)
Partition 5 (Extended - 24GB)
Partition 6 (Linux Native - 24GB)
Partition 7 (Extended - 8GB)
Partition 8 (Linux Native - 8GB)
Partition 9 (Extended - 8GB)
Why would I want so many partitions? Well, I'd like to install a bunch of AMD64 distros I've got to match the 10 i386 distros I've got on my laptop (I don't have Vista on it, so instead of EasyBCD I use Fedora to control the MBR/Grub menu).
I'm not complaining, though - EasyBCD is by far the most hassle-free solution of multi-booting between XP, Vista and Linux I've ever found. Using the native bootloaders, it would mean bouncing between three (XP, Vista & Grub) which is not as elegant as EasyBCD's single menu.
Nice work, CG.
