EasyBCD users - What about kernel updates?

[Temporary Saint]

I'll be setting up a dual-boot system this weekend with Vista preinstalled using the instructions given here:

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vi...lled_first.htm

Am I correct in presuming that the Grub menu is invoked AFTER you choose Ubuntu from the "Vista boot menu" since it's installed on the Kubuntu? I'm curious because with my current machine I'm dual-booting between XP on the first physical drive and Kubuntu 8.04 on the second physical drive. Whenever I get a kernel update the new kernel version gets added to the top of my menu.lst file so I have menu items for the previous kernel versions, and the Windows entry I manually added to the top of the list is overwritten. Is a Windows option even present in the Grub menu when you use EasyBCD?

Steve

[Snowhog]

Re: EasyBCD users - What about kernel updates?

IIRC from my days dual-booting Vista and Kubuntu using EasyBCD, when you opt to boot into Linux, you are then running Grub. So if the Grub menu has multiple kernels, you will be able to select which one to boot. The Windows OS option in Grub should be listed at the bottom of the menu listing under Other Operating Systems.

[Qqmike]

Re: EasyBCD users - What about kernel updates?

Don't have Vista but read apcmag some time ago. You should be able to set it up (by choice) so that Vista boots Kubuntu by chainloading =>
> The Vista bootloader is installed to the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the first BIOS boot drive;
and
> GRUB is ONLY installed to the boot sector (=sector 1) of the Kubuntu root partition (i.e., not to the MBR);

Turn on the PC, get Vista's bootmangler, choose Kubuntu, see the GRUB boot menu (/boot/grub/menu.lst) in Kubuntu, choose Kubuntu from it and off you go (into Kubuntu).

Re: The GRUB boot menu.lst (/boot/grub/menu.lst):
> Make sure the #groot= statement in the menu.lst points at the Kubuntu partition (actually to the location of the kernel files, but I'm sure that's where you'd probably have them, unless you use a separate boot partition). So, for example, if Kubuntu is on the first hard drive, the 3rd partition,
#groot=(hd0,2)


Vista should not be on the GRUB menu.lst (no need for that, assuming Vista is in charge of boot management from its own boot boot menu).

If you ever do boot Windows from the Kubuntu boot menu, for example if GRUB is installed to the MBR of that drive, see this:
Section 4--where toi put Windows in the menu.lst:
How To GRUB Methods - Toolkit
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081671.0


You should be able to set this whole thing up so it does whatever you want it to do. There are many choices.