I'm using:
Vista 64bit Home Jokium ...oops I mean Premium
EasyBCD 2.0, release 79!
corei7 fairly new machine (1yr old)
Kubuntu 9.10 x64
Can't boot Linux. :wtf: perhaps my BIOS needs to be Tweaked? If so, how?
Maybe if I manually insert the proper drive location of Grub? But I have NO IDEA HOW TO DO THIS WITH BCD.
Grub2 Option will NOT allow me to pick ANY DRIVE AT ALL... so this option is not available for me in v 2.0.:lup:
Vista installed first and working fine booting on my 120G IDE hard drive,
secondary hard drive is a SATA, 500Gb... partitioned using GParted from Ubuntu Live CD
partions look like this in Gparted:
("Drive 0" in Vista)
/dev/sda1 ntfs 416Gb (using it as my Vista Data "E:" drive)
/dev/sda2 extended 50Gb (using it for Linux)
/dev/sdb1 ntfs 90Gb (this is the "C:" "Drive 1" where Vista is installed/booting from)
unallocated 20Gb
This is how these drives appear in EasyBCD pulldown:
Drive 0
Par.1 (E:\ as NTFS 416Gb)
Par.2 (Linux - 15Gb)
Par.3 (Swab - 6Gb)
Par.4 (Linux - 28Gb)
Drive 1
Par.1 (C:\ as NTFS - 92Gb)
Addendum:
hold the phone... I used the Neosmart Linux option now and it works... no idea why.
sorry for premature post... was at my wit's end. now I have no clue what I chose, but it works...
if you had an option to highlight one of the entries and "edit" its choices, I could see what worked right.
Vista 64bit Home Jokium ...oops I mean Premium
EasyBCD 2.0, release 79!
corei7 fairly new machine (1yr old)
Kubuntu 9.10 x64
Can't boot Linux. :wtf: perhaps my BIOS needs to be Tweaked? If so, how?
- After adding Linux to BCD restarting and booting to Linux left me with a black screen and blinking cursor.
- After adding Linux to BCD with the checkbox option for using NeoGrub (GRUB is not installed to the bootsector) option... restarted machine...
Grub2 Option will NOT allow me to pick ANY DRIVE AT ALL... so this option is not available for me in v 2.0.:lup:
Vista installed first and working fine booting on my 120G IDE hard drive,
secondary hard drive is a SATA, 500Gb... partitioned using GParted from Ubuntu Live CD
partions look like this in Gparted:
("Drive 0" in Vista)
/dev/sda1 ntfs 416Gb (using it as my Vista Data "E:" drive)
/dev/sda2 extended 50Gb (using it for Linux)
/dev/sda5 ext3 = / (this is where I told Kubuntu to place Grub when installing linux) 14Gb Kubuntu NEVER mentioned the term "boot sector" anywhere during installation as far as I recall... maybe this is the problem?
/dev/sda6 = linux swap 6Gb
/dev/sda7 ext3 = /home
("Drive 1" in Vista)
/dev/sdb1 ntfs 90Gb (this is the "C:" "Drive 1" where Vista is installed/booting from)
unallocated 20Gb
This is how these drives appear in EasyBCD pulldown:
Drive 0
Par.1 (E:\ as NTFS 416Gb)
Par.2 (Linux - 15Gb)
Par.3 (Swab - 6Gb)
Par.4 (Linux - 28Gb)
Drive 1
Par.1 (C:\ as NTFS - 92Gb)
Addendum:
hold the phone... I used the Neosmart Linux option now and it works... no idea why.
sorry for premature post... was at my wit's end. now I have no clue what I chose, but it works...
if you had an option to highlight one of the entries and "edit" its choices, I could see what worked right.
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