dual boot with Ubuntu 10.04

The time has come to cast off Vista and replace it with Ubuntu.

This article has some valuable tips: How to dual boot Vista with Linux .

1 Firstly, boot into Ubuntu and go to Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal. Then, type in sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst;
2 save the list as a text file on winDocs (C drive);
3 boot into Windows 7 and open EasyBCD;
4 go to "Bootloader Setup" and select "Reinstall the Win7 Bootloader", then "Write MBR"; this puts the Win7 bootloader back into the MBR, but the machine will only boot into Vista;
5 go to "Add/Remove Entries", click the NeoGrub tab and select "Install NeoGrub"; this adds the "NeoGrub Bootloader" option to the Vista bootloader;
6 choose Configure - this launches the NeoGrub menu.lst file, location at C:\NST\menu.lst; use Notepad to open the file, and then paste in the boot entries from the text file saved above; save and exit, then reboot the machine.

The system will come up with two boot options. Select "NeoGrub Bootloader" and then the Linux boot options will load. Choose the relevant option and the system boot into Ubuntu.

Alternatively, I use Grub as the Bootloader until I decide to remove or replace Ubuntu, in which case, I then follow steps 1-4 above to reinstate the Windows 7 bootloader. This has the advantage of a single list for all choices, rather than two.