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Hooch Tan
07-12-2010, 03:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://lifehacker.com/5585157/easybcd-20-makes-dual+booting-easier-now-supports-windows-7' target='_blank'>http://lifehacker.com/5585157/easyb...ports-windows-7</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"The new 2.0 release of the application comes with a slew of changes, the most notable including Windows 7 support, bootable ISO images, and adding bootable USB drives to the bootloader. It's well worth a look if you're setting up a dual-boot configuration."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1278966737.usr20447.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>Some of you out there seem to think that in order to get the best of all OSes, you have to install all the OSes.&nbsp; Virtual machines may provide an option, but that is not good enough for you.&nbsp; You want all of your operating systems to run on bare metal.&nbsp; EasyBCD might just be a handy tool for you to have then.&nbsp; While I suspect anyone who goes through a dual-boot process has enough savvy to modify a bootloader without extra tools, it is probably nice to have an easy program so you do not have to muddle through arcane files buried deep in the computer.&nbsp; I just find it ironic that it only supports Windows, instead of the triumverate that is Linux, OSX and Windows.</p>

rockinthesixstring
07-12-2010, 10:57 PM
You would think that it "should" support Linux distros, but supporting OS X is a whole nother beast. It would mean that this app would have to be able to run on Mac computers natively since OS X does not run on your generic PC (unless you grab Hackintosh that is).

Joel Crane
07-14-2010, 04:56 PM
GRUB supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and any other operating system you can dream up.

Idk why you would want to quadruple boot Windows 7, Ubuntu, OS/2, and QNX, and I'm sure you could with GRUB.