[Zygmo]

I have been dual booting WinXP and Mandriva One (8) Live for months on my Toshiba Lap top, with absolutely no problems. Lately, I have been beta testing the new Windows 7. After trying Win 7 on two of my other computers, today I decided to try it on my Toshiba.
The Toshiba laptop is an L25, S121, with a 1.60 G Celeron chip, 2 Gs memory, ATI graphics, 75G HD. About 3 years old, and obviously no powerhouse, but has been a very dependable, good computer.
In anticipation of trying a dual boot with Linux, I deleted all partitions, made one new one of 50Gs, leaving the rest unallocated. By making the partition before inserting the Win7 disc, and pointing the OS to that partition, it stops Win7 from making the small System Partition, which I was afraid might interfere with the Linux install, using Grub.
Believe it or not, Win7 works better, and is faster, on this laptop than on the two later (with faster CPUs) desktop computers I have tried.
So, after loading some programs (Adobe Photoshop 7 hasn't worked yet on any Win7 computer I have tried, but Photoshop 9 'CS2' does) on the laptop, and using it a couple of hours, it was time to try the dual boot.
I have found that Mandriva One Live works best on this Toshiba. It loads all the drivers needed for wireless Lan, video, and sound.
I boot with the Mandriva One disc, which is then running off the disc. From the linux screen, just click Mandriva Live Install, and after about 15 minutes, and answering a couple of questions, Linux is up and running.
Shut down, reboot, and the boot screen comes up, where you choose Linux, or Windows. Everything works, just like with WinXP and Linux.

[saikee]

I wouldn't have expected anything different myself.

If Win7 is not downward compatible with other MS systems then it will have to use the hard disk a different way and able to prevent Linux from dual booting it.

Some times ago I made an assertion that Grub can boot system before Grub was born (like the old Dos) and systems that have not been invented yet. Well Grub was declared finished and no longer maintained several years ago before both Vista and Win7 came to the scene.

[Zygmo]

Saikee. Notice in the body of my post, that I mentioned making the partition, BEFORE loading the Win7 Disc. The reason for that was, Win7 will install what they call a small System Partition, if you just try to install to unallocated space. I was not sure that Grub would deal with that correctly. So, just to be sure it would work the normal way, I made sure the system partition was not allowed to install. Just satisfying my curiosity.
As far as what you said about Grub...I do not understand. If Grub is not legitimate anymore, why is Mandriva still using a perfectly successful Graphical Grub bootloader?

[saikee]

The Grub developers have abandoned Grub, which is called Grub legacy , and concentrated on Grub 2 which have no documentation (except man page or users feed back).

The the popularity of Grub legacy and Grub 2 is demonstrated by the distros. Most if not all of them still favour Grub legacy.

One of the reasons not maintaining the Grub legacy was it became too difficult or labour intensive.

The graphical boot screen is usually an add-on splash image to please the users.