Shibathedog Posted October 31, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 AFAIK, this particular loader only messes with the files win7 uses to boot without even touching GRUB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted October 31, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted October 31, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted November 1, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 well, the order I have it is Arch Linux, Arch Linux (fallback kernel), Windows 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted November 1, 2009 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VT-Vincent Posted November 2, 2009 Author Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted November 2, 2009 Share 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VT-Vincent Posted November 2, 2009 Author Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 so you basically used the fix mbr equivalent in linux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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