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[Rutger van Haasteren]

I have also been dual booting Ubuntu and Vista for over a year. Never had
problems. Just don't try to let Windows manage the booting. Let grub do it.

On 4/13/07, Scott W. McMikle <lxrules at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am writting you from a dual boot machine with Ubuntu and Vista.  Grub
> was installed without any trouble and it works as advertised.  When I first
> booted Vista after that, it did offer an option to "fix" the way Windows
> booted.  I declined the "fix" and have not seen the dialog box since.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On 4/13/07, Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > Brian Astill wrote:
> > > On Friday 13 April 2007 13:35, Saad Kabir wrote:
> > >> I have a quick question that can ubuntu coexist with windows
> > >> vista Business
> > >
> > > The only sensible way to use Linux of any kind is to "dual boot".
> > > You use Partition Magic (or similar) - or you could use qtparted,
> > > which comes as part of the Ubuntu install disk- to create a
> > > second (empty) partition, leaving your Windows data intact on the
> > > other.  You then install Ubuntu on the empty second partition.
> > >
> > > Unless Vista has done something diabolical, a grub menu will be
> > > created automatically and will allow you to choose between Vista
> > > and Ubuntu when you restart your computer.
> > >
> >
> > Unless MS has done something to allow for dual booting after RC2, then
> > it just won't work.
> >
> > Based on my experience w/RC2 - getting Vista to dual boot ANYTHING was
> > impossible.
> >
> > That may not be the case now with the official releases - but I would
> > still be weary.
> >
> > If you absolutely MUST have Windows and not the hardware to run Vista
> > w/Aero - then install something like XP or even W2K.
> >
> > Vista is just too new to be trying things like dual booting. If you
> > simply must - not only frequent Linux lists and forums, but it might be
> > worth it to visit a few Windows forums.
> >
> > Then of course there is the less intrusive option - VMWare.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Chris
> >
> > Edited for television.
> >
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