Ixolite
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I couldn't find any solution close enough to my situation...
OK, let's start from the beginning - I'm a linux noob so I was looking for some easy solutions for my problem. What I want is being able to triple boot Vista, XP and Ubuntu 7.04 from a single boot menu or if it is not possible, allow GRUB to boot Ubuntu and Vista bootloader in chain.
Problem is I have quite a mess here, so I'll have to describe it from the very begining.
First I had XP installed on a SATA drive and that was it. Then I decided to try out Vista - as I didn't want to screw my XP installation I got second SATA drive and installed Vista with XP drive plugged out. This way I had two windows installations on two separate drives and I was able to boot to each one by changing the drives boot order in BIOS.
When I decided that Vista isn't going to eat my brains out I thought it would be nice if I could have both systems booted from a single boot menu. I copied Vista bootmanager to XP drive and now boot both XP and Vista from Vista bootmanager but from XP drive (it's set as first in disk boot order in BIOS)
So I have both Vista and XP booted from XP drive via Vista bootmanager and it is working.
I had old IDE drive from my previous computer lying around so I decided I could use it for Linux. I plugged out both SATA drives, plugged IDE drive in and installed Ubuntu on it.
So now I have three operating systems: Vista, XP and Ubuntu, each on it's own drive and I want to find a way to boot to Ubuntu without having to change disc boot order in BIOS.
I tried to add linux boot entry to Vista bootloader with EasyBCD1.6 but no luck there and I'm not familiar with GRUB enough to fiddle with it.
I am also not really sure how my drives are seen by bootloaders and operating systems.
IDE is on primary master, both SATA drives are SATA1 and SATA2 masters. When I ran Ubuntu Live CD drives were signed as: hdc, sda, sdb. EasyBCD, when trying to add linux boot entry, sees IDE drive as hd0 but messes with SATA drives - both of them have three partitions but EasyBCD sees 5 partitions on first SATA drive and two partitions on second SATA drive. The boot order set in BIOS is SATA1, SATA2 and IDE in last position. XP disk management describes drives as: IDE as hd0, SATA1 as hd1 and SATA2 as hd2.
So it's different in every tool I use and I got completly confused with that...
Oh, each drive was partitioned during installation of each OS by the installer integrated partitioners.
Any ideas?
OK, let's start from the beginning - I'm a linux noob so I was looking for some easy solutions for my problem. What I want is being able to triple boot Vista, XP and Ubuntu 7.04 from a single boot menu or if it is not possible, allow GRUB to boot Ubuntu and Vista bootloader in chain.
Problem is I have quite a mess here, so I'll have to describe it from the very begining.
First I had XP installed on a SATA drive and that was it. Then I decided to try out Vista - as I didn't want to screw my XP installation I got second SATA drive and installed Vista with XP drive plugged out. This way I had two windows installations on two separate drives and I was able to boot to each one by changing the drives boot order in BIOS.
When I decided that Vista isn't going to eat my brains out I thought it would be nice if I could have both systems booted from a single boot menu. I copied Vista bootmanager to XP drive and now boot both XP and Vista from Vista bootmanager but from XP drive (it's set as first in disk boot order in BIOS)
So I have both Vista and XP booted from XP drive via Vista bootmanager and it is working.
I had old IDE drive from my previous computer lying around so I decided I could use it for Linux. I plugged out both SATA drives, plugged IDE drive in and installed Ubuntu on it.
So now I have three operating systems: Vista, XP and Ubuntu, each on it's own drive and I want to find a way to boot to Ubuntu without having to change disc boot order in BIOS.
I tried to add linux boot entry to Vista bootloader with EasyBCD1.6 but no luck there and I'm not familiar with GRUB enough to fiddle with it.
I am also not really sure how my drives are seen by bootloaders and operating systems.
IDE is on primary master, both SATA drives are SATA1 and SATA2 masters. When I ran Ubuntu Live CD drives were signed as: hdc, sda, sdb. EasyBCD, when trying to add linux boot entry, sees IDE drive as hd0 but messes with SATA drives - both of them have three partitions but EasyBCD sees 5 partitions on first SATA drive and two partitions on second SATA drive. The boot order set in BIOS is SATA1, SATA2 and IDE in last position. XP disk management describes drives as: IDE as hd0, SATA1 as hd1 and SATA2 as hd2.
So it's different in every tool I use and I got completly confused with that...
Oh, each drive was partitioned during installation of each OS by the installer integrated partitioners.
Any ideas?