Hi there,

I bought a new Laptop two/three weeks ago, and guess what, it came with WinVista. I said to myself: you used win before, and you never seen Vista, why dont you try it out.

What happend?

Ok, you know and i know: bad idea, because:

Once you have wotked with linux before, and you have really understand it, you can never leave it, because its the best out there. I started having this blue screens (i forgot everything about the blue screens!) everytime i wanted to print in my network printer (Kyocera, by the way). It really made me scream: @#$%#@#$%^&*&^%$

At the moment Im downloading Suse 10.3 to a DVD. Its working ok. My idea is the following:

Leave Vista installed and install Suse. No big deal, but: is there a posibility to program a aditional command at Lilo/Grup Boot loader, so Vista starts?

Lets say: if the command: "secret = secret" is typed in, then vista starts, if not, it shows an error message.

I would like to know if this is posible. It would be great.

I thank you in advance, and for those who will be not here until next year a happy new year.

Don't know about the secret command, but you should be able to just hit "c" during the grub boot menu to get a prompt, then manually chainload Vista. See the "Grub Booting Tips" link in my signature.

Or just leave an entry on the grub menu for Vista, but make the timeout really quick, like 1 second. Then you'll know to hit a key quickly if you want Vista to boot, but no one else will have time to read the menu.

either you show vista and dont show the rest or you show the rest and dont show vista at any time ...

i'm still waiting for the time of not showing vista at all ... wondering what take it so long ...

maybe i'm afraid there might be new windows only killer application appearing or windows only killer peripheral ...



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When I had vista installed I was just chain loading it like you do with windows xp. Far as I know there is nothing special that you have to do. Then again I could be wrong as the only vista I ever had was the beta.

This Grub entry loads Vista just fine for me, you may have to change it slightly to point to the proper partition for your system.
EDIT: I have just realized I missed the point of the thread. I would go with the null option stated below me.

Just make the "title" line null - that way you get a blank line in the menu. If you select it, you can boot Vista. Put it at the bottom of the list, no-one except you will ever know.

This is great. I will tried that this night.
I just luv linux.