Coolname007
Distinguished Member
Hi, i'm new to this forum, and this is my first post. Let me just explain a little what i have done so far, and what i want to do (using EasyBCD)...
Ok, so my original plan was to simply dual boot Vista with XP, using the tutorial found here: http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm
That was my original plan...however, by the time it took me to print off all the reader's comments for that tutorial, i had received additional suggestions by people on the Ubuntu forums. And of course in the meantime I found out about Wubi and decided to try out Ubuntu 8.10, of course. I decided I liked it, and wanted to keep it. So this made me change my mind about the way I was going to setup my computer....of course, naturally, I also happened to run across (also on the Ubuntu forums) a program called LVPM, which could migrate my Wubi install to a dedicated partition! This of course aroused my interest further in Ubuntu, and I made up my mind to transfer Wubi to a partition, after installing XP on another partition, since I figured it would be easier (although I was wrong). So this then i proceeded to do, using BootIT NG to create the needed partitions for both XP and Ubuntu.
Unfortunately, though, i ran into a couple of problems trying to do it that way (for one thing, I accidentally forgot to set the partition active that i wanted to install XP to, and i went ahead and installed XP anyway....before realizing my mistake! this of course produced undesirable results...), and so i then determined that I was going to delete the XP partition, and start afresh...this time migrating my Ubuntu install first! This I proceeded to do, and again ran into several problems! :ldown: For one thing, one thing that i didn't understand at first, when using LVPM (due to this fact not mentioned on the sticky thread concerning this topic back at the Ubuntu forums!), was that I was supposed to edit the menu.lst after the transfer...and so naturally, after migrating my Wub install, I thought that LVPM had failed, because when I tried booting into it, i got error 17 (cannot mount selected partition)! this then sent me on a course of more screw-ups (only making the matter worse:scared
, i.e. trying the transferring process again more times, as well as attempting to "stg partition" using BootIT NG (which of course only succeeded in overwriting my Grub bootloader!:glare...
What all this is leading up, of course, is the fact that I tried EasyBCD to create a boot entry for XP so that I could boot into my XP installation (I've already installed XP again, by the way), but the program failed to do what was expected... :wtf: It neither worked to allow me to boot into Ubuntu or XP, via the Vista bootloader! I've tried both, using the latest EasyBCD version (i.e. 1.7.2), but both have failed.
Here's what it says in the "View Settings" window in EasyBCD:
Hopefully someone can figure out what I'm missing, in order for the boot entries created by EasyBCD to work... :ldown:
Looking forward to all replies! :brows:
-Coolname007
P.S. to make this post shorter, i omitted some of the things that I went through to get to the place that I am at now...basically, i have just have had so many problems trying to figure out how to tri-boot my computer with Vista (installed first), XP, and Ubuntu 8.10!
EDIT: Entry #1 is preinstalled Vista, Entry #2 is my Wubi install of Ubuntu 8.10, Entry #3 is the entry that I created for my real install of Ubuntu, using EasyBCD, but it didn't work... Entry #4 is of course the entry that I created for XP, but it didn't work as well!
EDIT #2: When i open up the \NST\nst_grub-6AD1B88A3FD296E85BC179CB1DC35544.mbr file, this is what it shows:
So it looks like to me that this file needs to be edited some how, so that it will point to the correct place... :scared:
Ok, so my original plan was to simply dual boot Vista with XP, using the tutorial found here: http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm
That was my original plan...however, by the time it took me to print off all the reader's comments for that tutorial, i had received additional suggestions by people on the Ubuntu forums. And of course in the meantime I found out about Wubi and decided to try out Ubuntu 8.10, of course. I decided I liked it, and wanted to keep it. So this made me change my mind about the way I was going to setup my computer....of course, naturally, I also happened to run across (also on the Ubuntu forums) a program called LVPM, which could migrate my Wubi install to a dedicated partition! This of course aroused my interest further in Ubuntu, and I made up my mind to transfer Wubi to a partition, after installing XP on another partition, since I figured it would be easier (although I was wrong). So this then i proceeded to do, using BootIT NG to create the needed partitions for both XP and Ubuntu.
Unfortunately, though, i ran into a couple of problems trying to do it that way (for one thing, I accidentally forgot to set the partition active that i wanted to install XP to, and i went ahead and installed XP anyway....before realizing my mistake! this of course produced undesirable results...), and so i then determined that I was going to delete the XP partition, and start afresh...this time migrating my Ubuntu install first! This I proceeded to do, and again ran into several problems! :ldown: For one thing, one thing that i didn't understand at first, when using LVPM (due to this fact not mentioned on the sticky thread concerning this topic back at the Ubuntu forums!), was that I was supposed to edit the menu.lst after the transfer...and so naturally, after migrating my Wub install, I thought that LVPM had failed, because when I tried booting into it, i got error 17 (cannot mount selected partition)! this then sent me on a course of more screw-ups (only making the matter worse:scared
, i.e. trying the transferring process again more times, as well as attempting to "stg partition" using BootIT NG (which of course only succeeded in overwriting my Grub bootloader!:glare...What all this is leading up, of course, is the fact that I tried EasyBCD to create a boot entry for XP so that I could boot into my XP installation (I've already installed XP again, by the way), but the program failed to do what was expected... :wtf: It neither worked to allow me to boot into Ubuntu or XP, via the Vista bootloader!
I've tried both, using the latest EasyBCD version (i.e. 1.7.2), but both have failed. Here's what it says in the "View Settings" window in EasyBCD:
Code:
There are a total of 4 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 10 seconds.
Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista
Entry #1
Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #2
Name: Ubuntu
BCD ID: {637a99e5-c702-11dd-b2b9-82a022abb6b4}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr
Entry #3
Name: Ubuntu 2
BCD ID: {637a99ed-c702-11dd-b2b9-82a022abb6b4}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_grub-6AD1B88A3FD296E85BC179CB1DC35544.mbr
Entry #4
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {637a99ee-c702-11dd-b2b9-82a022abb6b4}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NTLDRLooking forward to all replies! :brows:
-Coolname007
P.S. to make this post shorter, i omitted some of the things that I went through to get to the place that I am at now...basically, i have just have had so many problems trying to figure out how to tri-boot my computer with Vista (installed first), XP, and Ubuntu 8.10!
EDIT: Entry #1 is preinstalled Vista, Entry #2 is my Wubi install of Ubuntu 8.10, Entry #3 is the entry that I created for my real install of Ubuntu, using EasyBCD, but it didn't work... Entry #4 is of course the entry that I created for XP, but it didn't work as well!
EDIT #2: When i open up the \NST\nst_grub-6AD1B88A3FD296E85BC179CB1DC35544.mbr file, this is what it shows:
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Loading new partition
Bootsector from C.H. Hochst„tter
Cannot load from harddisk.
Insert Systemdisk and press any key.
UªSo it looks like to me that this file needs to be edited some how, so that it will point to the correct place... :scared:
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