I actually liked Windows’ boot manager: it’s simple that it’s stupid (LOL)
But that’s it: I’m not going to use other boot manager if there’s any Windows installation in same drive (assuming all OSes are in same drive).
For OpenBSD, it’s really easy: just read the installation faqs. 😛
For (x/k/ed)Ubuntu, there’s no instruction available but it’s not much different with OpenBSD’s:
- At installation, make SURE to install GRUB on the ROOT partition of the system (using advanced option on last step) – and take note the location (ex: /dev/sda2)
- After installation you’ll get to Windows directly without given choice for OS: don’t worry, we’ll add it now
- Go download dd for windows
- Use
dd --list
to see which is the Ubuntu root partition. Easy way:Harddisk#
is the same as system partition – usuallyC:
drive. Then forPartition#
, use this formula:/dev/[s/h]d[a-z]#
. So /dev/sda2 would have partition number 2 (Partition2
) - Then do this:
dd if=?DeviceHarddisk#Partition# of=c:ubuntu.pbr bs=512 count=1
- And edit
boot.ini
(System Properties → Advanced → Startup and Recovery Settings → Manually edit startup file). Add line like this:C:ubuntu.pbr="Ubuntu"
- Reboot, there’ll be Ubuntu in boot choice list.
- There might be another countdown… to remove: go find it yourself 😛
- Yay finished
Hi!,
Good day!,