G-Stress Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Hey guys curious about something. I was tri-booting Vista, XP and Linux (Back|Track). I re-installed Vista and I had a feeling it was going to overwrite the bootsector? Now upon boot my system doesn't see BT at all. I'm just wondering is there a way I can set it back to the way I had it without re-installing BT? I was using lilo. It would first prompt me to boot either BT or Vista, I would select Vista which would load Vista's bootloader and let me select either Vista or XP. If I could get it back to that or if I can even use lilo without using Vista's boot loader that would be great:) I was kinda thinking maybe in XP using VMware running BT if I could somehow then set lilo to be the bootloader if that'll work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 Right now lilo is just 'pointed' at the boot loader on the Vista partition right? Well, all you do is add another entire that 'points' at the XP partition and it should work :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Stress Posted May 28, 2007 Author Share Posted May 28, 2007 Man you are quick:) Umm the thing is though now when booting it don't see lilo at all. It just goes straight to the Vista boot loader. Also I did try that, pointing to the Vista partition and the vista partition and it didn't work, but I could have not done it properly. The only way I can access BT now is off liveCD... hmmm... I bet I could probably use the liveCD mount the BT partition and then re-initialize lilo :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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