The subject should say "booting an XP partition *image*". On the GRUB Legacy Wiki, I find this article which appears to be helpful.
http://www.omninerd.com/articles/Installing_GRUB_on_a_Hard_Disk_Image_File I will write if I have more questions. Thanks for your attention. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:17:34PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi all, > > First, thanks for opening your list to the whole > world's questions. > > I'd like to troubleshoot an XP partition image. > > First, I copied it with dd: > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=xp_partition > > Now I would like to boot it: > > qemu --enable-kvm -hda xp_partition > > This displays the SEA BIOS line, then hangs at "Booting from Hard Disk". > > What I imagine is that BIOS transfers controls to the boot > record, however no boot loader is present, and there is > no partition table. > > Most of my recent experience is with grub-legacy; that would > be my preferred boot loader. I know that GRUB is quite > flexible, and will probably do what I want if I can > install/configure it properly. > > Can someone give me a couple pointers: > > 0) Is it practical to do what I'm attempting? (does anyone > know if XP will even boot this way?) > 1) how to install a boot loader in the boot record > of the partition image > 2) how to get the boot loader to look for its files in the > partition image's file system > 3) how to adjust to the disk image having no partition table. > Do I treat this partition image like a floppy disk image? > > Thanks for your interest. > > Regards > > -- > Joel Roth -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
