triple boot ( FC5, XP, Vista Beta 2)

[cusTom3]

hi all :)

i am fairly new to linux and would really like to get this working. i have searched quite a bit and cant seem to find a definitive answer anywhere.

i have a laptop that triple boots to FC5, XP, and Vista. In order to get this working so far i have had to set up grub so that it has two boot options, windows and linux. selecting the windows options, which used to be just xp, now fires off the vista boot manager since installing. i would really like to get vista and xp as options back into grub and not have the second menu.

has anyone configured grub to boot vista successfully? please post a grub.conf if you have.

i am willing to answer any questions if someone can help me get this up and running. i can reinstall all three OS's if need be.

to make things a little more complicated the laptop has a sata raid 0 setup. after installing vista i had a heck of a time getting grub reinstalled. i booted the FC5 disk with linux rescue and got to a grub console but couldn't get it to work following the instructions up here.

please help :)

TIA,

steve

[tbl]

Well, i am not running vista, but have run two win system with linux one's. The problem is that win must not view win ! So you have to use hide and unhide. If you dont, win will destroy win (:-D)---> that s not a joke !
If this can help you, here is a kind of grub.conf allowing to boot two win :

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img

title Dom
unhide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,3)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

title Yaouenn
unhide (hd0,3)
hide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

This one was running two win98 and rh9, but the way is the same with other win....

[sentry]

Just out of curiosity how does the Vista hard drive encryption play with Linux?

Or have they dropped that too?