The main work is in the MBR setting we will  use rmbr.exe, a Cyberlink tool for Media Direct and also for QuickPlay Direct.

This brief guide will teach you how to boot Ubuntu on your laptop using QuickPlay Button for HP users or media direct button for Dell users.

Begin:

1 Of course install Vista and Ubuntu on your laptop.

2 When done download rmbr.exe, copy it to anywhere, in this example c:\quickplay\rmbr.exe.

3 Then go/and click Start, All programs, Accessories, choose and right click command prompt,choose run as administrator.

4 Change directory to the directory of rmbr.exe, in this example, the command is: cd\quickplay

5 type:

Code:

rmbr quickplay 2 1

Note: In this example, the partition 2 is for ubuntu that will be launched by QuickPlay button and the partition 1 is for VISTA that will be launched with the power button.

You can choose your own partitions and see some help by typing as:

Code:

rmbr /?

Known Problem:

The restart options in VISTA will malfunction. It will start Ubuntu instead of VISTA. Please post If someone can fix it please post a comment.

Note:
It is possible to use the 12GB of HP recovery partition, but please DO NOT FORGET to build your HP recovery disks first, and same for Dell.