[billmilosz]

I have an XP partition, and now I have a Vista Beta 2 partition. I installed VistBoot Pro and it SAYS I have 2 OS's - XP and Microsoft WIndows (which I renamed to Vista) and it tells me they are on the drives that I expect them to be on.

It says I should get a boot menu with a 10 second delay where I can select XP or Vista but I get NO boot menu, it just boots right to Vista!

How do I get the BOOT MENU?????

Here's what VistaBootPro says:

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {ntldr}
displayorder {ntldr}
{current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 10

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
description Windows XP

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=L:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=L:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {50c73d4d-e6b3-11da-bc73-d30cdb1ce216}
nx OptIn

[billmilosz]

Well I answered my own question.

First, in order to run BCDEDIT (which is a command-line tool) as ADMINISTRATOR I created a shortcut on my desktop to CMD and then right-clicked this to RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR; the resulting command line window has administrator privileges, so you can run BCDEDIT there and it will work.

Then I looked at the BCDEDIT FAQ

so I ran

bcdedit /set {legacy} path \ntldr

After rebooting the Boot Menu appeared and allowed me to select XP or VISTA.

The problem was, although VistaBootPRO lets you select the drive for the legacy boot option, it does NOT allow you to set the PATH and the EXECUTABLE NAME (A serious oversight IMHO) which in this case is \NTLDR

[Grav!ty]

Very very well done billmilosz

It's really not easy to decipher those bcdedit commands but it looks like you have done it.

Welcome to PROnetworks by the way and thank you for posting your solution. Sunday morning at PRO is not our most active time so I'm sorry you were left to fend for yourself but seems like you did just fine

[kd1966]

Welcome to PROnetworks billmilosz!! As previosly stated, we apologize for the delay in getting someone to your issue, and definately a huge thank-you for solution and feedback on VBPro. We are always trying to make it a better program. Please head over to our Introduction Area so we can welcome you properly.
Also, I will move this to the Vista Chat & Support area