First of all Hi to All,
great idea to have this Forum and thanks to the makers of EasyBCD!
I just wanted to drop a line regarding my experiences and commenting:
My Setup:
Asus P5B Deluxe, 2.3 GHz Duo2Core, 6 GB RAM
SATA and IDE HDD
Triple Boot: openSuse 11.1, XP Pro SP3, Win7 RC1
SATA layout:
1st Part.: prim. ntfs /Win7,
2nd Part prim. Fat32 (rw data exchange with Linux)
3rd Part.---7 Ext .. swap, root .... /openSuse --->> BOOTING GRUB fromm ROOT Part.
IDE:
1st Part.: prim. Fat32 /XPPRO SP3
2nd Part: prim. NTFS (backup)
Ok, my setup is as above and I am booting into grub from openSuse root partition.
I could create an entry to boot into SATA Part 1 -> to access the boot loader of Win7 RC1
It took me a while to that due to the constantly changing drive letters and (sorry) EasyBCD 1.72 messing up the BCD entriey and bootloader!
Finally and only EasyBCD v2!!! did fix all issues regarding legacy support.
After reading through the very well documented Guide and notes about installation of Multiboot and Bootloaders ... I still had some problems to get XPPRO to boot from
COMMENTs:
- beside in the guide mentioned XP needs in the root of the "active " drive the follwing files:
1) boot ini, 2) ntdetect 3) ntldr (in my case on SATA Part1, where BCD starts!)
as well as the --- bootsec.exe!!!
In my case it did not work without it and I only got the XP startup menu (like pressing F8) and the screen frooze up.
- ideally I would like to boot from grub (of Linux ROOT PArt.) directly either into
Win7 or XP PRO --> but I haven't gotten this to work yet ..
My guess is I need to set in grub -> makeactive for the XP Paretition, but am hesitating at the moment as it already works as is.
- the commands mentioned for BCD from a Admin CMD console do not apply for Win7
they are somehow different from what is described in the guide ...
>> Could an expert look into it and update the guide accordingly.
- EasyBCD 1.72 messed up my BCD ID for the HDD and did not writte the correct ID's into BCD menue. EasyBCD v2beta fixed this all nicely. Well done.
Keep up the good work.
My wishlist as a feature:
a) The possibility to edit the BCD Menue like textfile e.g. like the boot.ini to mannually add or manipulate entrys.
b) a simple util/feature that lists the correct ID for each device to be used for editing
(the BCD commands did not do the job)
Finally a Question I could not figure yet ---
Can I install WIN7 RC1 onto an external HDD and boot from it.
I tried but it does not work ... any input on this is appreciated
Cheers
xfiles
great idea to have this Forum and thanks to the makers of EasyBCD!
I just wanted to drop a line regarding my experiences and commenting:
My Setup:
Asus P5B Deluxe, 2.3 GHz Duo2Core, 6 GB RAM
SATA and IDE HDD
Triple Boot: openSuse 11.1, XP Pro SP3, Win7 RC1
SATA layout:
1st Part.: prim. ntfs /Win7,
2nd Part prim. Fat32 (rw data exchange with Linux)
3rd Part.---7 Ext .. swap, root .... /openSuse --->> BOOTING GRUB fromm ROOT Part.
IDE:
1st Part.: prim. Fat32 /XPPRO SP3
2nd Part: prim. NTFS (backup)
Ok, my setup is as above and I am booting into grub from openSuse root partition.
I could create an entry to boot into SATA Part 1 -> to access the boot loader of Win7 RC1
It took me a while to that due to the constantly changing drive letters and (sorry) EasyBCD 1.72 messing up the BCD entriey and bootloader!
Finally and only EasyBCD v2!!! did fix all issues regarding legacy support.
After reading through the very well documented Guide and notes about installation of Multiboot and Bootloaders ... I still had some problems to get XPPRO to boot from
COMMENTs:
- beside in the guide mentioned XP needs in the root of the "active " drive the follwing files:
1) boot ini, 2) ntdetect 3) ntldr (in my case on SATA Part1, where BCD starts!)
as well as the --- bootsec.exe!!!
In my case it did not work without it and I only got the XP startup menu (like pressing F8) and the screen frooze up.
- ideally I would like to boot from grub (of Linux ROOT PArt.) directly either into
Win7 or XP PRO --> but I haven't gotten this to work yet ..
My guess is I need to set in grub -> makeactive for the XP Paretition, but am hesitating at the moment as it already works as is.
- the commands mentioned for BCD from a Admin CMD console do not apply for Win7
they are somehow different from what is described in the guide ...
>> Could an expert look into it and update the guide accordingly.
- EasyBCD 1.72 messed up my BCD ID for the HDD and did not writte the correct ID's into BCD menue. EasyBCD v2beta fixed this all nicely. Well done.
Keep up the good work.
My wishlist as a feature:
a) The possibility to edit the BCD Menue like textfile e.g. like the boot.ini to mannually add or manipulate entrys.
b) a simple util/feature that lists the correct ID for each device to be used for editing
(the BCD commands did not do the job)
Finally a Question I could not figure yet ---
Can I install WIN7 RC1 onto an external HDD and boot from it.
I tried but it does not work ... any input on this is appreciated
Cheers
xfiles