Re: GRUB and ntldr

2005-11-12 Thread Molle Bestefich
Thomas Schweikle wrote: AFAIK does the MBR load the first active primary partition boot block (an other 512 Bytes). Yes. This loads parts of ntldr. I suspect the 1st block, but I'm not sure. Then jumps to a place within ntldr (ntldr is not started at position 0x0 in the file). Seems odd,

Re: GRUB and ntldr

2005-11-11 Thread Thomas Schweikle
French, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Spain, ... I do find this interesting though, so if someone manages to boot ntldr from grub, please tell us. It would be nice enough if one could tell us exactly how MBR, partition boot sector and ntldr interact and work, then what is required to make ntldr find

Re: GRUB and ntldr

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Schweikle
adrian15 schrieb: title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)/ntldr boot supposing that the ntldr is called like that. This doesn't work, since ntldr isn't a supported binary type. GRUB refuses to load it this way. A) Tell me if that works for you I'm interested also in loading ntldr

Re: GRUB and ntldr

2005-11-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
, and choose one of them with grub. This should give you around 30 versions of windows, 1 of which (3 with some grub tricks) can be 9x. I do find this interesting though, so if someone manages to boot ntldr from grub, please tell us. -- Didi ___ Bug-grub

Re: GRUB and ntldr

2005-11-10 Thread Molle Bestefich
. 50 GB) NTFS volume with lots of data on it already. - Moving a disk from one system to another, where the moved-to system uses a different LBA-CHS translation scheme. I'm unsure whether it's the volume boot sector or NTLDR that hangs, but if Grub could load NTLDR, I guess I'd have an answer

Re: GRUB and ntldr

2005-10-25 Thread adrian15
Hi! Any way available to directly load ntldr? I need something to get this thing into RAM and then execute it. Any idea not using an windows mbr (and thus chainloading ntldr). I need a direct way. I will try with something similar to this: title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader

GRUB and ntldr

2005-10-19 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! Any way available to directly load ntldr? I need something to get this thing into RAM and then execute it. Any idea not using an windows mbr (and thus chainloading ntldr). I need a direct way. Something like: title Windows root (hd0,0) kernel /ntldr boot or title Windows root