On 02/02/2011 05:14 PM, Ben Stoutenburgh wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:So if you have the choice, install GRUB2 into the MBR. GRUB2's a better bootloader than NTLDR anyway. James, why are you chainloading from NT and not GRUB?
There's something seriously screwy with my desktop machine, where XP is unable to find ntoskrnl.exe (even though it is in the correct place, and is a good file). Had tried running the usual fixmbr/fixboot commands in Windows rescue console, and it would boot straight into XP no problem. Then boot into Linux & repair the Grub bootloader, and the XP boot fails at the same place again. As I said, something screwy with this particular machine, as the same technique works fine on other machines. If it could handle more memory I'd just run XP in VirtualBox for those things I need it for (no USB support in Wine, etc).
Managed to find that Grub2 needed to be installed in the /boot partition (which I extracted the first 512bytes from).
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