Dual Boot of Windows Vista and Ubuntu and use EasyBCD as bootloader
If your new computers comes with Windows Vista preinstalled, please follow the following procedure to install Ubuntu and.
1.Log into Vista open disk manager to free some disk spaces.
2.Reboot your computer use Ubuntu Live CD. Choose “setup Ubuntu” from the bootable manual .
3.Click the install icon on the live session Ubuntu desktop, follow the instruction until you see “choose the partition method”.
4.Make sure you choose manual at this step and click next.
5.In the next screen, select the free disk spaces which you prepared in Vista and create a new partition. Usually, you can make a partition as large as the (your maximum free disk space -2G), and select the file system type as ext3, mount point is root “/”.
6.use the rest of 2G free disk create a new partition, swap, choose the file system type “swap”.
7.Once you partitioned your disk, before you install your Ubuntu, on screen 7, choose “advanced” and select the partition which you used to install the root of Ubuntu to install the Ubuntu boot loader. In my case I installed Ubuntu at “sda6”, so I choose it to install GRUB.
This step is important if you want to use vista boot loader.
8. Finish the rest steps on installation and grab a cup of tea.
After finishing install Ubuntu, log into Vista and install EasyBCD boot loader:
9.Open EasyBCD and go to the "Add/Remove Entries" page.
10.Choose the "Linux" tab from the bottom-half of the EasyBCD screen.
11.Pick the partition you installed Ubuntu from the drop-down partition list (In my case it is sda6, as I mentioned early)and choose "Add Entry".
Now you have Vista and Ubuntu dual boot.
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