ricmitch Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Hi there.Before I installed Vista this morning I had 2 operating systems, using the XP boot menu, XP Professional and Fedora Core 3. After installing Vista, I wanted to carry on using this menu, so following instructions I found on the internet, I booted to the recovery console and ran fixmbr, fixboot etc.My boot.ini now looks like this:[boot loader]timeout=5default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptInc:\fedora.mbr="Fedora Core 3 64 bit"multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista beta 1" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECTHowever when I select the Windows Vista option, all I get is a black screen and nothing happens (as though there is no bootable information)The relevant hard drives are partitioned as follows:Disk 0:NTFS Windows C: 76,322MBUnallocated space 7.8MBDisk 1:Unallocated space 7.8MBExtended Partition: 78,152MB- NTFS My Documents F: 30,718MB- EXT3 Fedora L: 32,130MB- NTFS Vista M: 13,311MB- SWAP Linux Swap 1,992MBThanks for your help in advance,MitchPS. I have tried Vista with and without the /USENEWMENU switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegis Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Fixboot and Fixmbr might have messed up the Vista boot sector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricmitch Posted August 1, 2005 Author Share Posted August 1, 2005 (edited) I don't see why it would have, but anyways...Re-install is the best bet then? Edited August 1, 2005 by ricmitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 I don't know much about Vista, but it looks like it is using ANOTHER bootloader, NOT NTLDR.If you ran fixboot/fixmbr, from within XP, you probably overwrote references to the new bootloader BOOTMGR with ones to NTLDR.The fixntfs utility "should" be able to correct this, see here:http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/post-468184.html(I suppose it does, but you'll have to find the correct switch)Also, if it works like elder versions, you may have the option of an ® Repair install.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerWolf Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 (edited) To make it so that windows is default - This is how I did it.Control Panel -> System (or right click computer) -> Advanced -> in the bottom section Startup and Recovery Settings, press Advanced -> you can change the default OS here and also change the boot.ini -> in Vista i couldnt edit boot.ini directly and if you have problems with doing it this way, make sur e you are in vista safe mode. Thats how I did it.Also this is my boot.ini so you can return it to the way it was before [boot loader]timeout=20default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECTmulti(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADERThis may fix your problem. Edited August 3, 2005 by TigerWolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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