Vista bootloader

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By far the easiest way to dual boot Vista and OSX86 is by using the vista bootloader. When installing vista, the new vista bootloader is installed automatically on your MBR. This highly configurable bootloader can easily boot Vista, XP, OS X, Linux, or Unix-like BSD Systems. If you don't have vista, you can use this bootloader too ! Download Easybcd and click the 'Install Vista Bootloader' button.

The vista bootloader can be configured manually with 'bcdedit', but a very easy and free tool to configure your bootloader is EasyBCD. With this tool you can with one click install or remove the vista bootloader to the MBR, or add the OSX, LINUX or Unix-like BSD (I tested it with OpenBSD) partitions to your bootloader that you want to boot.

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I tried this myself and i made a quadboot (xp, vista, osx, ubuntu) without any hassling with boot configs. You dont even need Vista for this! Just download the tool in windows xp, use the 'install vista bootloader', and start adding your operating systems.

For a more detailed explanation how to add OSX or any other system, try the neosmart wiki. . . . . .

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