Isn't Windows Vista like XP? I mean, doesn't its MBR simply pass control to the primary partition that's marked as active? If it still is, then I feel it would be more logical to leave grub in the MBR and configure an entry there for Vista. Along the lines of:
# /boot/grub/menu.lst title Microsoft Windows Vista root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 Of course, this doesn't actually address your current problem, two-fold if I understand well: 1) your Windows Vista partition isn't detected by the alternate CD and 2) grub acts weird when you restore Vista's MBR and try to boot from its menu. I wonder about this, though. Does Vista still use NTFS? Is that partition which isn't recognized still NTFS? Did you have XP on that machine as well? Did it get recognized? I mean, is this a problem specific to Vista or does it also happen with XP? -- 6.06 LTS alternative install CD fails to recognize Windows Vista Beta 2 https://launchpad.net/bugs/49012 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
