Beck wrote:
>
> "mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:OgP%23RPTWHHA.4964@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> download EasyBCD and install in either xp or vista.
>> one of its options is to repair boot.
>
> That has not worked, nor did VistaBootPro.
> Thing is when I use these programs to check the boot, everything seems
> normal and linux/grub is nowhere to be seen. Its as if the Vista boot
> is totally in tact, but Grub is before it and overiding it.

I was running a non-Microsoft bootloader (OSL2000) because I'd been
experimenting with OS-X on a system that was already booting Win2K and
two versions of XP and Vista. For a while I had all five running
nicely, but I tired of my experiment with OS-X and decided to drop
OSL2000. I could have killed it with the OSL2000 setup program, but I
had inferred that that didn't really get it out of the MBR -- it just
masked it. (I think. Not really sure, but that's not important now.)
I tried to get rid of OSL2000 by doing a boot repair with my Vista
installation disk. Didn't work. So I did a repair using my XP
installation disk. FIXMBR warned me that it had found a non-standard
bootloader and cautioned that running it might rearrange partitions. I
took a deep breath and ran it anyway. It fixed the MBR (got rid of
OSL2000) and left the Vista bootloader alone. Now when I boot I get a
choice between Vista and "older version of Windows." Partitions
remained where they were and OSL2000 is gone.

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog