VT-Vincent Posted October 31, 2009 Author Posted October 31, 2009 I think I'm one of the few people that actually bought my copies of Windows 7
Inky Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 Bah, loaders are no good....I'm using a loader and it seems fine. I do plan on getting around to doing a Bios hack sometime later. I think I'm one of the few people that actually bought my copies of Windows 7 probably
Shibathedog Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 Loaders work just as well if you do it right and use a good one. Personally I wouldn't want to mess with the BIOS of my 300+ dollar mobo. I did find a pre made one but it doesn't seem hard to do it yourself. Still...If it doesn't flash right I'm pretty screwed. It could effect the stability too because I'm overclocked. Sometimes things that make no sense effect stability I have noticed.
Weirdy Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 AFAIK, this particular loader only messes with the files win7 uses to boot without even touching GRUB.
Shibathedog Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 GRUB works, it just makes dual booting somewhat of a pain when you are using it to crack windows. If your activation doesn't use GRUB make sure to check your expiration date, I know there where a few that just replaced the activation files with some from the beta so it will still expire eventually.
Weirdy Posted October 31, 2009 Posted October 31, 2009 what? I've been using it to dual boot for quite sometime. Alls I know is, if something goes wrong I'll just boot into linux.
Shibathedog Posted November 1, 2009 Posted November 1, 2009 The GRUB loader is just weird about it. If you install the OSes in the wrong order it will de-activate windows. It's entirely possibly you set everything up correctly by accident. If everything is activated and working chances are you did.
Weirdy Posted November 1, 2009 Posted November 1, 2009 well, the order I have it is Arch Linux, Arch Linux (fallback kernel), Windows 7
Shibathedog Posted November 1, 2009 Posted November 1, 2009 Yeah I'm not totally sure but it would make sense if installing Windows 7 last was the right way to do it.
VT-Vincent Posted November 2, 2009 Author Posted November 2, 2009 Won't Windows 7 overwrite the Linux bootloader, though? To the best of my knowledge, BCD doesn't automatically recognize any non-Windows operating systems so you would need to reload your boot loader after installing Windows 7.
Weirdy Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 All windows, w/out one's consent, take over the MBR. What I did was install windows 7, have grub reclaim the MBR, boot into windows, use loader (, profit).
VT-Vincent Posted November 2, 2009 Author Posted November 2, 2009 Ah, thought so. In the past, I've installed my Linux distro last as most of them will recognize and automatically add Windows to their bootloaders.
Shibathedog Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 so you basically used the fix mbr equivalent in linux?
Weirdy Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 yes, but it's not really much of a fix. You just need grub (the app itself) installed anywhere: livecd or installed distro; I did it from gparted. From there, start grub as root, point it to the partition where grub is installed [root (hd0,4)], and tell it where to take over [setup (hd0)].
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