When prompted to set up the bootloader, make sure you specify to install LILO, GRUB, or whatever to the bootsector of the partition that Linux is being installed to and not the MBR of your hard drive.Put the Linux CD in the drive, and start the installation normally.
If you had Linux installed before you installed Windows Vista, scroll down to the next section. These steps also assume that you are using the default Windows Vista bootloader, and don’t manually change the active partition around. These steps assume you have Windows Vista properly installed and booting, and are looking to install Linux on a second hard drive or partition. We have distro-specific guides for Fedora and Ubuntu available! Vista before LinuxĮasyBCD makes installing Linux after you have Windows Vista up-and-running a breeze. In this case, we configure the Vista bootloader to ask either Grub or Lilo (the most common Linux bootloaders) to complete the boot process for us – minimizing configuration requirements and ensuring maximum compatibility. Chainloading is a dual-boot term that refers to one bootloader handing off the boot process to another.
