Yeah, Vista is definitely not dual-boot friendly. So far, everybody seems willing to dual-boot Ubuntu and Vista... but, instead of using the Vista bootloader, they use Grub. I for one don't like messing with what Pat put in Slackware, and so I'd rather either figure out how to use LILO instead, or use the Vista bootloader.
Hmm... I love browsing around while posting. Looky what I found on Digg:
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Originally Posted by ScornForSega
The old tricks from XP to edit the boot.ini to use the NT bootloader in linux still work in Vista.
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/home/user/boot.lnx count=1 bs=512
I used that command a lot while getting my home and work machines to boot linux from an external drive using the NT loader.
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This is how I used to boot a Slax install in XP. If you have more questions, post and I'll gladly elaborate.