Dual-boot Vista SP1 and Linux

Rumor has it that Vista SP1 does not like other people's bootloaders (LiLo, grub) and refuses to boot from them. Because of this, my friend even refused to install Fedora Linux on a laptop with Vista Home Premium SP1 installed. As it is written on the Microsoft website, this BitLocker is only integrated in the Ultimate and Enterprise branches, so that users of Home Basic, Premium, etc. nothing to worry about. And to the happy owners of Ultimate / Enterprise - do not worry, everything is much simpler than you think.

Let's say you have Vista Ultimate and Linux installed (no matter which distro and bootloader, and of course dual-boot is set up) and you want to put SP1 on Vista. Before installing SP1, you need to restore the Windows bootloader (in MBR) - insert the Vista disk, load the recovery console and restore the MBR. Next, we load whist, install the long-awaited SP1, reboot - everything works. Now you need to disable BitLocker - Control Panel - Security - BitLocker disc encryption. Click Turn Off and uncheck. Finally, load any Linux Live CD and restore GRUB / LILO to its original position (in MBR). Vista will not swear.

If you have Ultimate SP1 installed and you want to install Linux next to it, then simply disable BitLocker before installing. Everything will go smoothly.

I tried on 2 machines Intel, Vista Ultimate, Fedora Linux 10, grub. On one I had to register chain-loading in grub, for HD is crookedly labeled. In general, everything works.

UPD A good manager for managing bootloaders: EasyBCD is award-winning and compatible with Vista (and BitLocker), and not some bullshit Paragon Boot Manager (the link was removed for some objections ... google will show;)

UPD. For whom everything is working, turn on BitLocker and stop complaining ...