Can Fedora & Vista Co-exists?

I was quite concerned about this, if Vista and Fedora can co-exists.
I didn't try this earlier, but after the arrival of Fedora Core 7, I thought of giving a try on this.
The reason of my worry was that till Windows XP, Microsoft used NTLDR boot loader which was quite old, where as after Vista the new Bootloader is introduced. It replaces the earlier one. This is called BCD, Boot Configuration Data. Here things have been made complicated and there is no good UI to edit boot loader. BCDEdit is command line tool for manipulating Vista Bootloader. Apart from this it requires you to run this with admin privileges. There is one free tool to manage Vista Boot options in simple GUI way. download VistaBootPRO from http://www.vistabootpro.org/.

Now Fedora puts its new boot loader, GRUB in the MBR. Earlier LILO (Linux Loader) was used to boot the machine with multiple options while starting, in case you've installed Linux and Windows.

Considering new loaders coming on both the sides, it is really risky to play with boot loader while installing Fedora and Vista both on the same machine. My point of worry was that, do these two boot loaders conflict? The answer is NO.

Fedora Boot Loader GRUB still sits on the top of Vista BCD loader. So you will be prompted with GRUB first, if you make the choice of windows partition then you'll be prompted with Vista Boot loader BCD. All you need to take care is that First Install Windows Vista and then install Fedora Core 7.

This is really exciting to see how both the bootloaders can co-exists.

This blog is to share the experiences on two contradictory OSs

Here I'll share my experiences with two contradictory Operating Systems. Windows Vista and Fedora Core. You are all invited to add your experiences.