I've been using GRUB for some time, for various OS'es, but I wanna switch to something else.

I've just had way too many issues with GRUB. I randomly get some errors about geometry mismatch -- gone the next reboot, error 17 (enough of those), sometimes error 21 and such (without having changed anything either -- just during a plain old reboot). And mainly, GRUB not finding files that are there (namely NTLDR and BOOTMGR -- maybe it's GRUB's NTFS support that sucks), which is quite a pain to fix. I'm just tired of that nonsense. I'll give up using boot loaders altogether or use windows' own (at least it never does this stuff to me) if I have to, so long as GRUB is not on my system anymore (this time, I just bootrec /fixboot -- taking GRUB out of the loop). It's just too buggy/problematic. Without GRUB, I've had exactly 0 issues, everything works perfect.

Anybody uses another one, and is satisfied with it?

So you are triple booting XP, Vista, and "Linux"?

It is possible to chainload GRUB from BOOTMGR.
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Linux

I am not sure if that is what you are doing now or you just gave up GRUB completely :-)

Otherwise I've been meaning to check out NeoGrub
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/NeoGrub

Yeah, I gave up on GRUB for now. Right now, they're all setup to dual boot (either Vista and XP, or XP and Linux), but I was planning on triple booting this one eventually (Vista x64 likely).

I'll be looking at NeoGrub. Thanks for the input!

Are you talking about GRUB or about grub4dos?

For the record, neogrub uses an oldish version of grub4dos, newish releases have fixed some problems and added a few very nice features.

It is advised to replace the grub4dos binaries with a more recent version.

Grub4dos current "recommended" release:
http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome/grub4dos-...-2008-05-14.zip?

Grub4dos Support Forums:
(English)
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showforum=66

Official one:
(English/Chinese)
http://www.znpc.net/forum/index.php

More general multibooting forum
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showforum=71

Something you may also want to have a look at is Aerostudio/Avlgomgr:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showforum=72

jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: Jul 10 2008, 11:52 AM

Sorry, the issues have been mainly with grub4dos. Don't recall what version it was, but it's not installed anymore. Either ways, I'm single booting most boxes right now, so no worries.