Your message dated Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:19:38 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#610697: grub-common: start windows XP from raw.qemu
into EXT3 partition
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regarding grub-common: start windows XP from raw.qemu into EXT3 partition
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Package: grub-common
Version: 1.98+20100804-11
Severity: wishlist
Hello
I would like to use windows XP without emulation (so no wine, nor qmeu, or
vmware or others)
so directly to start with 100% power microsoft windows XP at normal speed and
performances
- well you would tell me : dual boot man !
- well ok, but I do not want to install a NTFS and keep the RAW image of my
qmeu and use it from teh Boot Grub
that launches it like dual booting but will write all those stuff into RAW
image located into my ext3
please could you code that.,.. it is not that hard in principle, with using all
today's tools.
Thank you in advnance !
Kind regards
Y.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages grub-common depends on:
ii base-files 5.10 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dpkg 1.15.8.7 Debian package management system
ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-4 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages grub-common recommends:
ii os-prober 1.42 utility to detect other OSes on a
Versions of packages grub-common suggests:
pn grub-emu <none> (no description available)
pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available)
pn xorriso <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:52:36PM +0100, yellow wrote:
> I would like to use windows XP without emulation (so no wine, nor qmeu, or
> vmware or others)
> so directly to start with 100% power microsoft windows XP at normal speed and
> performances
>
> - well you would tell me : dual boot man !
>
> - well ok, but I do not want to install a NTFS and keep the RAW image of my
> qmeu and use it from teh Boot Grub
> that launches it like dual booting but will write all those stuff into RAW
> image located into my ext3
>
> please could you code that.,.. it is not that hard in principle, with using
> all today's tools.
Windows XP doesn't support being started this way. Operating systems
only get, at most, the *location* of the root filesystem handed to them
by the boot loader (and in the case of Windows, GRUB doesn't even tell
it that); it's up to the operating system to establish the root
filesystem for itself, which in this case would mean Windows knowing how
to mount an ext3 filesystem and then do the equivalent of a loopback
mount to get at the NTFS filesystem image contained with it. It doesn't
know how to do this.
There's nothing GRUB can do about this. Sorry.
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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