Let's talk about Windows Vista

Originally Posted by Magic

That's because when a bootloader is installed it overwrites the previous one, since they're all written to the master boot record of the hard-drive. Whereas Linux's bootloaders (GRUB/LILO) have separate installers that you can run on your own, I don't know of a program that installs the Windows bootloader other than an actual Windows install. What's even more annoying is that I can't figure out how to get it to go away when you've only got one Windows install (after previously having two) so that it'll just boot straight into Windows and not ask you to pick. Last time I messed with the boot.ini it created a whole mess of problems, so I don't dare touch that.

For Windows XP if you go Start -> Run -> msconfig and go into the boot.ini tab, you can set whichever OS you want as the default and set the timeout time to 1 second. That should minimize the selection problem without having to actually muck around with changing filepaths and that sort of stuff.

Jam it back in, in the dark.