Help with dual booting

[Christopher Wilkinson]

Hello there, I am trying to dual boot Windows 7, ubuntu and Android. I
have installed Android onto a partition (A:) and Windows 7 is on (C:)
of the same hard drive. I am using 'bcdedit' in command prompt. I have
created a new entry for android, but don't understand how to change
the partition to (A:) so the boot doesn't fail.
Do you know how to go about doing this?
This will help me because I will use android on my laptop instead of
windows 7 for on the go, but since I can't get the bcdedit set up, I
have to use a memory stick all the time, and it isn't saving data. So
setting up android every time is just time wasting.

Additional Details:
I'm using Android 4.0 and it looks a bit like honeycomb on my laptop
screen.
Android classes my laptop as a tablet, but without the touch screen
(I'm using a mouse)
All the files are in a sub folder. Kernel is in "A:/android-2012-01-01/
kernel.

Tell me if you need anymore information.

Thanks in advanced!

[Fragile Avatar]

Is your Android installed to a FAT32 partition? I'm assuming this is
why you can assign it drive A:.

http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ EasyBCD is free for home and personal use
and I find it easy to use, you might find it easy to setup Android in
this way as it does support various boot operations. It basically sets
up the bcd related steps and all it needs from you are variables that
will make linux/android etc., boot.

On Feb 20, 2:37 am, Christopher Wilkinson <cwilkinson...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Alvin Wong]

Hi there,

I am not very familiar with Android-x86, but I'd like to point out:

1) You can't directly load most Linux distributions from bootmgr. Most
of them do: use bootmgr to load the mbr of GRUB, then GRUB is
responsible for loading Linux (inc. Android-x86)

2) If you are not familiar with bcdedit, I'd suggest you use EasyBCD
that helps you do everything http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ (you can
download it free). It can actually automate the operation of adding a
Linux boot option that may help.

Good luck,
Alvin Wong

On Feb 20, 6:37 pm, Christopher Wilkinson <cwilkinson...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Stefan]

Here is an instruction to dual boot ICS with Windows 7 using EasyBCD.
The special thing is that Android itself is placed in a folder inside
the C: NTFS partition. This runs quite nice.

http://www.wetab-community.com/index.php?/topic/18366-android-403-ics-imagedualboot/

(Use Google Translator to get it into your language.)

Stefan

[Christopher Wilkinson]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I will try the easybcd program. I
have had no luck just typing the commands into bcdedit in command
prompt. Thanks again, I will let you know how I get on

Thanks, Christopher