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Computer Guru
September 6th, 2007, 11:56 AM
EasyBCD 1.7 has just been released with a bunch of new features for Linux fans.

* EasyBCD can search your drive for Linux and boot it; you don't need GRUB installed on your bootsector to make it work!
* Install and manage GRUB from within Windows with EasyBCD's NeoGrub - rewritten from scratch (special thanks to the Grub4Dos project)
* Support for multiple separate bootloaders of the same type.

There are a bunch more features (http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/easybcd-17-released-up-for-download/) and an entire changelog (http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1)

Download (neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1) (858 KB)

forrestcupp
September 6th, 2007, 02:09 PM
Just curious about something. What would be the purpose or benefit of having multiple boot loaders? It seems like it's just one more hoop to jump through before getting where you want to go.

This project does sound interesting, though.

original_jamingrit
September 6th, 2007, 02:15 PM
Just curious about something. What would be the purpose or benefit of having multiple boot loaders? It seems like it's just one more hoop to jump through before getting where you want to go.

This project does sound interesting, though.

Might be a good way to organize several Linux partitions. If you had partitions A, B, and C, each with their own OS, each one may have a couple of extra things to choose at boot time. SO you'd have a menu to choose A, B, and C, and then choose one of the kernels or memtest to boot with per partition.

Although, I am happy with my GRUB as it is now.

@trophy
September 6th, 2007, 02:35 PM
Might be a good way to organize several Linux partitions. If you had partitions A, B, and C, each with their own OS, each one may have a couple of extra things to choose at boot time. SO you'd have a menu to choose A, B, and C, and then choose one of the kernels or memtest to boot with per partition.

Although, I am happy with my GRUB as it is now.


I think the purpose of it is to have your linux partition (possibly on an external hard drive) boot if you want it to without messing with Windows at all. Kind of like a liveCD, but with read/write access.

Quillz
September 6th, 2007, 04:46 PM
Just curious about something. What would be the purpose or benefit of having multiple boot loaders? It seems like it's just one more hoop to jump through before getting where you want to go.

This project does sound interesting, though.
It's useful because Vista works differently with GRUB, and the difficulties people had with it was the reason for EasyBCD's popularity in the first place. Now with 1.7, you don't even need to have EasyBCD set up the GRUB boot loader for you, it just finds and boots Linux. This means Linux could be on an entirely different hard drive, completely untouched by Windows, and still work.

Computer Guru
September 7th, 2007, 04:51 PM
Thanks Quillz, that's an excellent explanation :)

It'll also let ou use multiple bootloaders in sync, such as having different OSes associated with GRUB, Lilo, Darwin, NTLDR, etc; all of them accessible from one place.

ssican
September 7th, 2007, 07:16 PM
EasyBCD Frequently Asked Questions http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/FAQ

The "Configure Boot" SCREEN http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Configuring+the+Bootloader

gusanto
January 5th, 2008, 02:57 AM
I dual boots Windows Vista and Ubuntu and use EasyBCD for the bootloader succesfully.
1. How can I change the time out, it's 30 second now, toooo long.
2. How to rename "NeoSmart Linux" into a new name.

Thanks.

Computer Guru
January 7th, 2008, 08:59 PM
1) EasyBCD in the "Change Settings" section
2) EasyBCD in the "Change Settings" section

:)

Cheeers.