re: Dual Boot anyone ?
Monday, October 17, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andrey _Sebastian
(5 messages posted)
To switch from the main boot menu to the legacy boot menu , I have to choose my ex
Windows 98 line for boot and setup vista has changed my line for Windows 98 to "Unidentified
OS" .
How can I load Windows 98 again ?
On Monday, September 26, 2005 at 4:28 am, Wendy Krieger wrote:
>The Vista bootmanager is different to previous versions of NT, and older NT versions
>appear in the legacy menu. Both the legacy menu and the main menu appear in boot.ini.
>
>To move a Windows to the main menu, you need to add the switch /USENEWLOADER,
>and copy the file winload.exe from the vista\system32 to the otherwin\system32 directory.
>
> Windows NT 4.00.1386 sp 6a and Windows NT 5.00.2195 sp4 (2k), boots from only
>the legacy menu. The above trick does not work with these systems.
>
> Windows NT 5.10.2600 SP2 (XP), and i presume Windows NT 5.20.3790 svr boot from
>both the main and legacy menus (without modification), as long as you do the trick
>above.
>
> Windows NT 6.00.5112 beta1 boots from only the main menu. The legacy menu does
>not work for it.
>
>Anything that boots from a bootsector (eg Linux, OS/2, DOS, Windows 9x), will boot
>from either menu.
>
>W
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