BitLocker & Linux Dual Booting

[Jamie Hunter [MS]]

Some people have been asking about this, here's some information for those
who are interested:

http://blogs.technet.com/voy/archiv...ta-bitlocker-protection-with-tpm-support.aspx

http://port25.technet.com/archive/2...th-BitLocker-Protection-with-TPM-Support.aspx

 

[Cheddarhead]

Hey-

Right now I am dual booting winxp and vista. 2 drives, works great. I wiped
ubuntu to install vista and would like to tri-boot, winxp, vista and ubuntu.
My though is, I will create a second partiton on the vista drive, and just
install ubuntu to that partition. My question is will vistas bootloader
recognize and properly load ubuntu without grub? If I choose to allow vista
to manage MBR...

C

 

[Jamie Hunter [MS]]

Something I've done on some of my BitLocker installs is to put XP on the
"Active" partition, which allows Vista to be on the non-active partition,
which can very well be a Logical Drive.
I'm not sure what the requirements are for Linux, but you can do 3-way boot
very easily with just physical partitions. Which sounds like what you've
configured.

BOOTMGR allows booting of "boot PE images" (Vista), NTLDR style images (XP)
and 16-bit boot blocks... the latter is your best bet for Linux. Cyril used
this technique to boot Grub (see links below). I believe you can use this
technique to boot the linux boot sector directly, but I need to play with
that. From what I can tell, bootpart may help here (just take the changes to
boot.ini and then configure bootmgr to do the same thing).
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Jamie Hunter [MS]

Hey-

Right now I am dual booting winxp and vista. 2 drives, works great. I
wiped ubuntu to install vista and would like to tri-boot, winxp, vista and
ubuntu. My though is, I will create a second partiton on the vista drive,
and just install ubuntu to that partition. My question is will vistas
bootloader recognize and properly load ubuntu without grub? If I choose to
allow vista to manage MBR...

C