SimpLe SI
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[FONT="]ok, I partitioned my hard drive, installed Linux, added it to the boot loader and everything was fine.
I updated my Linux kernel and rebooted, but because I hadn't configured the Linux LILO bootloader properly i couldn't boot into anything.
Eventually I managed to uninstall LILO and use the HP Vista Recovery on my laptop to use "bootrec.exe /fixmbr" command which proceeded to restore my default Vista MBR.
Since I used that command, my boot loader comes up with Windows Vista and the HP Recovery of which both work. The problem I'm having now is that I cannot add the Linux partition or any other new OS to my boot loader.
Vistabootpro doesn't have the capabilities to add Linux to the MBR, so I used EasyBCD and set my added a Linux entry EXACTLY how it had worked in my previous MBR, yet when I boot up the entry is just not there.
I then proceeded to use cmd in admin mode and use the bcdedit commands to add the information myself.
This is what my current MBR looks like {working Vista, working Recovery but Backtrack not showing up} :
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Thats with a working Vista and working Recovery yet no entry appearing for Backtrack3 even though it is clearly there and installed properly. Ive also tried using bcdedit commands to copy and paste the backtrack entry hoping that it will appear on the boot loader but it just will not.
I can revert back to an older MBR which my Backtrack shows up on the boot loader and will load fine, but then the HP Recovery partition does not boot up.
This is what my old MBR looks like {working Backtrack and Vista but broken HP Recovery} :
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At the moment I'm staying with the MBR that has the working recovery entry cause its too risky to loose it. Ive tried to add the Linux entry into the bootloader in so many different ways but just cannot get it to work.
Maybe I'm missing something somewhere, but Ive gone over and over this and cannot seem to find whats wrong. Could someone please explain to me why this is so, and how I could possibly fix this.
Thanks
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I updated my Linux kernel and rebooted, but because I hadn't configured the Linux LILO bootloader properly i couldn't boot into anything.
Eventually I managed to uninstall LILO and use the HP Vista Recovery on my laptop to use "bootrec.exe /fixmbr" command which proceeded to restore my default Vista MBR.
Since I used that command, my boot loader comes up with Windows Vista and the HP Recovery of which both work. The problem I'm having now is that I cannot add the Linux partition or any other new OS to my boot loader.
Vistabootpro doesn't have the capabilities to add Linux to the MBR, so I used EasyBCD and set my added a Linux entry EXACTLY how it had worked in my previous MBR, yet when I boot up the entry is just not there.
I then proceeded to use cmd in admin mode and use the bcdedit commands to add the information myself.
This is what my current MBR looks like {working Vista, working Recovery but Backtrack not showing up} :
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Code:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device boot
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
displayorder {current}
{572bcd60-ffa7-11d9-aae0-0007e994107d}
{d9d4316d-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
{d9d4316e-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
bootsequence {d9d43140-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 4
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe
description Vista
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \WINDOWS
resumeobject {7048b5a5-5fb4-11dd-8f22-806e6f6e6963}
detecthal No
usefirmwarepcisettings No
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {572bcd60-ffa7-11d9-aae0-0007e994107d}
device ramdisk=[boot]\sources\boot.wim,{ramdiskoptions}
path \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
description HP Vista Recovery
osdevice ramdisk=[boot]\sources\boot.wim,{ramdiskoptions}
systemroot \windows
detecthal Yes
winpe Yes
ems Yes
Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {d9d4316d-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
path \NST\nst_grub-7A4ABD950939370EBE03D6A65E90A89E.mbr
description BT3
Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {d9d4316e-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
path \NST\nst_grub-7A4ABD950939370EBE03D6A65E90A89E.mbr
description BACKTRACK3Thats with a working Vista and working Recovery yet no entry appearing for Backtrack3 even though it is clearly there and installed properly. Ive also tried using bcdedit commands to copy and paste the backtrack entry hoping that it will appear on the boot loader but it just will not.
I can revert back to an older MBR which my Backtrack shows up on the boot loader and will load fine, but then the HP Recovery partition does not boot up.
This is what my old MBR looks like {working Backtrack and Vista but broken HP Recovery} :
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Code:
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device unknown
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
displayorder {current}
{d9d4316c-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
{d9d43161-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 4
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description VISTA
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {e8709fb7-fa5f-11db-be4d-e219ece5282e}
nx OptOut
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {d9d4316c-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
device ramdisk=[boot]\sources\boot.wim,{ramdiskoptions}
path \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe
description HP Recovery
osdevice ramdisk=[boot]\sources\boot.wim,{ramdiskoptions}
systemroot \Windows
detecthal Yes
winpe Yes
ems Yes
Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {d9d43161-6007-11dd-8b43-8943620ecd66}
device partition=C:
path \NST\nst_grub-5F6A92CF71032E4FDDA8EB8D0E76CEC9.mbr
description BACKTRACK 3At the moment I'm staying with the MBR that has the working recovery entry cause its too risky to loose it. Ive tried to add the Linux entry into the bootloader in so many different ways but just cannot get it to work.
Maybe I'm missing something somewhere, but Ive gone over and over this and cannot seem to find whats wrong. Could someone please explain to me why this is so, and how I could possibly fix this.
Thanks
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. While I was able to get Vista to boot, the clock would always be off when it was booted and I wasn't able to put it in Standby or Hibernate after having been in either Linux or OSX. So in the end, i just let NeoGrub handle the other OS's outside Vista's bootloader...