bendavis.me » restore http://bendavis.me Always pottering with purpose Thu, 13 May 2010 14:27:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Making Vista and Linux get along http://bendavis.me/2009/12/13/making-vista-sp2-and-linux-get-along/ http://bendavis.me/2009/12/13/making-vista-sp2-and-linux-get-along/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:20:09 +0000 Benjy http://bendavis.me/?p=582 Windows_vista_logoAs I said in my previous post I’ve recently got a nice shiny new laptop. It came with Vista and so far I’ve left it on there. I have a few games which I don’t yet dare try and get running in Linux so a multiboot system will suffice for now.

Unfortunately, Windows Update doesn’t like this, specifically when it comes to installing service packs. I actually want service pack 2 for my laptop as it brings in better support for my BlueRay drive. What I need is to find a way to make my Linux and Windows installations more cosy with one another.

The way to do this is to give the Windows  partition the boot flag, booting its manager andLinux-penguin selecting either Windows or Linux from there. Otherwise when the Vista update scans the boot manager it finds grub and gets, quite rightly I suppose, a little confused.

To setup your multiboot computer to get around this, read my tutorial.

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