Before the install i had XP on two partitions on drive 0, and fedora on drive 1. Within XP, i formatted the second partition on my drive 0 (D:\) and then booted the Vista DVD. After the vista installation, i used EasyBCD 1.52 to setup the linux boot option (which worked great). Here are the entries reported by EasyBCD:
Entry #1
Name: Microsoft Windows XP [Professional_SP2]
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \ntldr
Windows Directory:
Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #3
Name: Fedora Core 6 [Zod]
BCD ID: {91df954f-b243-11db-950d-000129fbad38}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_grub.mbr
Windows Directory:
I have no idea why XP wont start after the vista install. My only guess is that ntldr was corrupted during the install, however the file is present on the d: drive within vista. I had noticed that the install cleaned up my boot.ini on the d: drive. The wierd thing is that Vista calls disk(0)parition(1) d: and disk(0)partition(2) c: - which is the opposite of XP. I also tried adding an entry from EasyBCD that was identical to entry #1 above only the bootloader path was c:\ . When trying that i got a screen that said:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click 'Next'
3. Click 'Repair your computer'
If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer administrator for assistance.
File: \ntldr
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corruptAnyway, any help here would be really appreciated! I would love to be able to multiboot xp, vista and fedora. Thanks for replies!
Ryan (Fargo, ND)
