> Thomas Schweikle wrote: > > adrian15 schrieb: > > > title Windows > > > root (hd0,0) > > > chainloader (hd0,0)/ntldr > (No need for hd0,0 since that's root) > > > boot > > > > This doesn't work, since ntldr isn't a supported binary type. > GRUB > refuses to load it this way. > > But it will happily load a boot sector using block list notation? > Doesn't sound right.
I think that this may be solved by the use of --force but I think it won't work either. > > > > B) Another question. Why are you interested in loading ntldr > manually? > Here's another reason why it would be pretty cool. > > It often happens that Windows 2000/XP fails to boot, showing just a > blank screen. > > I've seen it happen when: > - Installing on a large (eg. 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 to that question > pretty soon ;-). Ah. You can also check this link it's a kind of gpl ntldr or perhaps not. It may answer some of your questions: GRLDR - GRUB4DOS http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/ adrian15 _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
