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Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment GRUB even shows that it knows the Vista boot is "special", because when I do it with XP Pro, the GRUB boot menu only lists "Microsoft Windows XP Professional", whereas when I did it with Vista, the menu says "Microsoft Windows Vista (loader)".
[June 18, 2008, 9:27]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Ubuntu (Grub) correctly saw that there were two bootable Windows partitions on the disk, and both Vista and Ubuntu booted correctly, but when I tried to boot the XP partition, it actually started to boot Vista but then complained that the boot...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
S6510: XP Faster, More Stable Than Vista
Blog When I compared it, running Vista, to the S2110, it took about a minute to boot and display the Windows Logon screen (the same as the 2110), and then after I logged in it took about another minute before it was ready for use (much longer than the...
[January 13, 2008, 20:44]
Marketing Mush
Blog Currently DebbieToo (a Celeron) and SugarBear (a P3) both boot up faster than Windows XP SP3 on my P4. Yes that makes it boot faster more often, but it also means you have to leave the system powered while doing that.
[October 17, 2008, 3:51]
Ubuntu On Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog But perhaps I will now try installing on the XP disk for the S2110, as it is the "test" system, preserve the XP partition and set it up to dual-boot. It took about 5 minutes to boot the CD and answer the few questions that come up, then about 15...
[June 5, 2008, 9:16]
Dual-Boot Ubuntu And Windows XP Professional
Blog Then Ubuntu installed itself as usual, and the next time I rebooted, the GRUB boot loader offered to boot either Ubuntu (default) or Windows XP. My first attempt at this was to simply load XP on the disk as usual, and then boot the Ubuntu...
[June 13, 2008, 10:30]
Vista Vs. XP: The Final Retreat
Blog That scares the daylights out of me - especially after having Vista give me the "unable to boot / unable to recover" business previously. When I boot Vista, the memory meter shows 38% memory in use (of a total of 3 GB).
[April 24, 2008, 20:19]
S6510/Vista Vs. S2110/XP Professional
Blog Since going back, I have never had another problem with the S2110 - not one boot failure, BSOD, USB hang, or any of the other problems that were plaguing that system when it was running Vista. There were roughly equal through the diagnostic checks...
[January 9, 2008, 13:06]
Monolithic OS Upgrades Are So Over
Blog That will go on as a boot option. Ask for a downgrade to Windows XP. This in itself is not unheard of - several years ago there were companies upgrading to Windows 2000, long after XP became available, usually because they were sticking to very old...
[September 25, 2007, 18:26]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback New Intel Apple macs (iBook, Powerbooks, iMacs, Mac minis etc.need* to support dual boot to Windows XP/Vista. Like you're one to talk, with your pirated copy of Windows XP. Yeah, that would explain why Windows Vista Beta 1 picked up my...
[November 11, 2005, 16:36]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment If it wasn't for the hard drive install, it would have taken less time to install Linux than it takes for me to boot Vista. Linux boot time takes about a minute, a full 1/10th of what it takes for me to boot Vista.
[October 22, 2007, 23:27]
Windows Xp, Vista
Talkback Out of the fourty million Vista sales sold, what percent was boot legged. How long will you support windows XP? The vista product is sold as one product requiring a code which will determine what Vista product you have bought.
[May 16, 2007, 15:39]
Vista Memory Leak?
Blog When I boot Vista, once everything settles down it shows memory use of about 40% (I have 3 GB installed). I have checked the memory use for remaining processes in the Windows Task Manager, and while a couple of things are using noticeably more...
[April 17, 2008, 13:39]
Why I've Moved From Vista To Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I turns out that vista needed 26 minutes to boot from scratch. It took the whole operating system 47 minutes to install and a whole 74 seconds to boot from switched off. So when I asked if I could just remove vista and install my copy of windows XP...
[October 22, 2007, 3:25]
I Will Blog, Despite Vista's Best Efforts
Blog As I fired up Vista on my Asus to a) time accurately how long it takes to boot, and b) take another look at Google Docs and those eye-candied gadgets, Vista informed me that the product key I entered is not valid, indeed the whole operating system...
[March 20, 2008, 20:56]
Linux: Lost In The Trough Of Disillusionment?
Talkback You can dual boot if you are concerned. First off, XP and the 98 series use different drivers and the new "Vista" (criuser) 64 bit new driver sets altogether. Mepis may actually work with more differing combination of "PC's" and with less overall...
[September 10, 2005, 19:01]
Photos: Toshiba Launches World's Lightest Laptop
News Toshiba claims that SSDs are more resilient to shock and vibration, more power efficient, and have faster boot-up times than conventional hard drives. As his R500 will have to integrate with the Iridium satellite phone, Hempleman-Adams' machine...
[June 22, 2007, 10:27]
How Many Are Left?
Talkback I have a dual boot setup and I dont touch it. I wonder how many of the machines sold with Vista are still running exclusively on that OS? I'd hazard a guess that at least 50% of them are running on XP by now.
[December 1, 2007, 22:47]
Vista SP1 - Now Installed And Running
Blog It boots faster, suspends and resumes much faster, and so far there have been no boot failures or crashes as I had before. Ok, in large part due to some good advice from David Long, I now have Vista SP1 installed on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, and...
[March 24, 2008, 10:37]
Developer Tool Sheds Light On Vista Bugs
Talkback A re-boot should only be required if the kernel is changed, if anything else is added or updated the affected services or programs should just need re-starting, not a reboot of the whole system. It is a service, it should be restartable in itself...
[December 20, 2005, 7:29]
