Vista Won't Boot From Grub Under F11

[rgheck]

On 07/21/2009 07:04 PM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 18:53 -0400, rgheck wrote:
>    
>> I've just installed F11 on my wife's machine, which is some cheap
>> Gateway thing. Everything is working fine except that Vista (I'm hoping
>> to be able to get rid of it for her, but not yet...) will not boot from
>> grub. It starts to boot, then dies and dumps me into the System Recovery
>> thing. I was able to restore the MBR as Vista wants it to be, and then
>> it would boot fine again, and so I can use the popup boot chooser either
>> to boot Vista or to find my way into grub. But this is not really what I
>> want. I'd rather just use grub.
>>      
>
> Am experiencing the exact same thing. I have used vista AND windows 7
> and got the same result.  Vista does what you experienced, and Windows 7
> gets a boot mgr missing.
>
>    
At least I'm not alone....

I'm thinking maybe this is a consequence of having the boot partition on 
the second drive?

rh