On Jan 13, 2013, at 12:51 AM, Jake Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Syslinux one sounds cool and simple. I didn't know there was a single, > standard MBR code that chainloaded the VBR of the active partition. Now I do. > See, it pays to subscribe to the help-grub mailing list. > > You may also try a more direct approach: re-install Grub and use the ntloader > command. I don't think that even requires Microsoft's VBR code, let alone > their MBR code. At a grub prompt, help said ntldr loads NTLDR or BootMGR. I will guess insmod ntloader is needed to do chainloading, but I don't have a Windows menuentry handy to look at. I'm not aware off hand of any GRUB module that would write to the disk. There is a means of writing to a grubenv file for saving last saved boot selection. But that's the only thing I think GRUB writes to. In any case, NTLDR is a sizeable boot loader, it doesn't fit into 440 bytes of MBR so I wouldn't expect this command, even if it writes, could fix this problem. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
