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| oh yah, checking out qimo too.
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| I booted the Win7RC for several months from Grub Legacy and later Grub2 - can't speak for the final release, but can't see it would be different
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coastie
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| burned qino to disk last night, doing the others tonight.
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I multibooted win7 on three boxes with Linux. Installer found the MS partition in all cases
win7 in first of course. Chakra, Sabayon, and Kubuntu so far. Did mistahVISTA on multiboots with linux alsoin several cases. mistahVISTA and win7 use basically the same boot loader
No special interaction required.
So Linux finds the MS boot loader and all is well.
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masinick
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2025 6:02 pm Post subject: No problem, multi-booting can be done |
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| Pet3M0ss wrote: | Now may be a good time to ask. I have heard that Win7 does not like to boot from GRUB/LILO. Urban myth?? 
Don't want to spread FUD, but Coastie should know if something has changed. |
Yes, Urban myth. I HAVE Windows 7, got it recently, had no trouble at all chainloading it using GRUB, and I have at least six (but maybe seven or eight) distributions on that system).
Just make sure that you install a boot loader only in the MBR and not over the top of Windows, and similarly make sure to allocate separate, distinct partition space. The best way to do that is right off the bat. If Windows is preinstalled, REINSTALL it, and reallocate partitions. Certainly 30-50 GB of space for Windows is generous and plenty; I often give my Linux systems 15-20 GB each, though the numbers for both go up each year. |
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tlmiller
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| Agreed. I have multiple systems with multiple version of Win7 (Ultimate 64-bit, Professional 32-bit, and Home 64-bit), all chainload Win7 without a single issue.
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coastie
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| Thanks guys, that makes me feel better.
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so...what's a parent to do. 
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