Re: vista clone - autochk

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<hollex2108@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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It sems to be a vista not a linux problem. If I dont use grub
(rememer its lost) the problem is the same
and its an vista error message.

OK, to the problem. The grub settings you propose I had
further set. But then vista only boot from sda1 (office).
So before I boot I hide sda1 and vista apparently try to boot
from the first partition it find.

If I use groub or nor is not essential (at the moment I have
no grub bootloader so that I set my change by gparted).

OK I have used "bootrec /rebuildbcd" but the result is the same
(autochk not found).
At last I have try to install vista on sda2 (label = boot and activ,
sda1=hidden). same result (autochk not found).

Slowly I think it is impossible.


I have recently set up a dual-boot between Vista and Ubuntu,
and it can be a pain to keep the boot loaders out of each others'
way, but it's quite possible to multi-boot multiple Vistas with
multiple Linux installations. In my experience with "Autochk not
found", it had to do with the "active" flag (what Gparted calls the
"boot" flag) not being set on any of the Primary partitions - and
thus the MBR didn't know where to pass control. I continue to
think your problem has to do the the Grub "makeactive" command.
The Grub manual says that "makeactive" sets the partition to
"active". Why would you want to set any other partition "active"
if you weren't passing control back to the MBR? The MBR is
the first and last entity that looks for the "active" flag.

Here is the simple entry in my /boot/gtub/menu.lst to pass control
to Vista's boot manager:

title Vista boot mgr
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1

And that's all! Grub passes control to the Vista boot manager,
and then Vista boots up as if it had gotten control from the MBR.
That's with the Linux partition set "active". When Vista's
partition is set "active", the Vista boot manager presents a menu
that includes Vista and the Ubuntu boot manager (i.e. Grub).
The easier of the 2 ways is the first - to have Grub hand off
control to the Vista boot manager - because Vista's BCD is
hell to work with.

But here's a simpler way to do the multi-boot: Use EasyBCD
or VistaBootPro to handle the hard stuff. Both are free for
download.
Using EasyBCD:
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Ubuntu
http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2313

Similar webpages describe use of VistaBootPro to
dual-boot Vista and Linux.

*TimDaniels*


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