Sounds good, thanks for the quick response. Restored Track 0 and Vista/XP/Ubuntu boot ok....now OS X doesn't want to boot, so looks like I'll have...
Back with a brief question. I installed Acronis Disk Director on my XP, and it screwed up my Boot sequence due to OS Selector (the same problem I...
I ended up gonig with Ubuntu 32-bit. Ethernet/Sound worked right out of the box, I had to enable the video drivers since Ubuntu didn't seem to...
Hah well I'm glad you enjoy messing with the boot process so much, otherwise I'd probably still be where I was three days ago. Update: Oddly...
Works perfectly with Vista+XP+Ubuntu, now time to install OSx and hope I get that up and running. Once again, can't thank you guys enough, you've...
Part 1 (partition setup): Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 9791 78646175+ 7...
Sounds simple enough....with some luck I should be able to get all 4 OS up and running by tonight.
At work right now so I don't have my laptop with me, but I'll post it once I get home (about four and a half hours from now). On a sidenote, it...
Sounds good, I'll get right on it and let you guys know when I've got Ubuntu up and running and ready to go with GRUB UPDATE: Vista/XP drivers...
I've got 3 gigs of RAM.....I'll go about setting my partition to look just like that (only real changes I have to make is splitting my Ubuntu...
Installed drivers for the 3 "Base System Devices"....just the fingerprint scanner/network device/unknown left. Once XP/Vista are fully up and...
Heh yah....I still have 6 unknown devices. 3 are "Base System Device" that have their location listed as PCI bus 3 1 is "Unknown Device" with the...
Thate notebookreview forum you linked to earlier had quite a few of the drivers (my video card/sound/ethernet are all good to go....wireless is...
Apparently I'm supposed to use the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager driver Which is nice....since when I try to install it, it tells me my system...
Few issues with this by the way.... Vista doesn't boot in ATA mode XP doesn't boot in the original AHCI mode. XP doesn't find any ACHI/SATA...
Alright, thanks for the re-assurance. Beginning XP installation now, I'll let everyone know how that goes. EDIT: XP is up and running (aside from...
Appreciate the help very much, my laptop would likely be in pieces by this point if it werent for you and k0lo UPDATE: Deleted the FAT16 and...
It was listed as System as well, sorry for leaving that out. Also started up fine after setting the Vista BCD parameters to boot. Looks like it's...
Alright, Vista was listed as Boot and Active, with the FAT16 hidden and it started with no problem. I'll set the Vista BCD parameters to "boot"...
I'm trying to hide the FAT16 partition. And, strike 3 in terms of stupid mistakes on my part, safe mode works. After hiding the FAT16, windows...
quiet acpi didn't work.... I'm using the Disk Director bootable media, should I be using True Image instead?
Ah yah... And on that note, apparently Acronis just told me it did not find any hard disk drives.....(I tried switching to ATA as well...same...
I made an image of my FAT16 and Recovery drive using True Image just incase... MudCrab: Vista+OSx+Ubuntu are still not installed...so removing...
Here: http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z298/repole/boot2.jpg
Once again, I am dumb. http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z298/repole/boot.jpg For reference, yes, D:\ is now the FAT16 partition. If deleting...
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