----- Original Message ----
From: Bean <address@hidden>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, 8 August, 2008 4:00:41 PM
Subject: Re: Windows boot
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Viswesh S <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks,let me have a look at the chainloader command in grub2 and in legacy
> grub.
>
> Could you let me know the issue which you faced in the chainloader command.
Hi,
The problem is in loader/i386/pc/chainloader.c (grub_chainloader_cmd):
/* Obtain the partition table from the root device. */
dev = grub_device_open (0);
if (dev)
{
grub_disk_t disk = dev->disk;
if (disk)
{
grub_partition_t p = disk->partition;
/* In i386-pc, the id is equal to the BIOS drive number. */
drive = (int) disk->id;
if (p)
{
grub_disk_read (disk, p->offset, 446, 64,
(char *) GRUB_MEMORY_MACHINE_PART_TABLE_ADDR);
part_addr = (void *) (GRUB_MEMORY_MACHINE_PART_TABLE_ADDR
+ (p->index << 4));
}
}
grub_device_close (dev);
}
p->offset is
the offset of the start of the partition, but actually,
we need to read the sector that contain the partition table, which is
the mbr for primary. But replace p->offset with 0 doesn't fix this, as
grub_disk_read is related to the beginning of partition, not the disk.
You need to use the low level api:
disk->dev->read (disk, 0, 1, (char *) GRUB_MEMORY_MACHINE_PART_TABLE_ADDR);
But this fix only apply to primary partition, for logical partition,
the partition table is not in mbr, and this quick patch doesn't work.
But I remember someone send a patch to allow for loading of syslinux
in logical partition, you can search the list if you're interested.
BTW, if this doesn't work, you can try loadbin. It can be used to
chainload ntldr/bootmgr directly.
I tried the loadbin,according to the instructions which you had given in osdir.com
linux loadbin.bin
initrd ntldr
This method is not limited to grub2, it can also be used in boot
loaders which support the linux kernel format, such as
syslinux/lilo/grub.
To compile loadbin.bin, use the following
commands:
gcc -nostdlib -DLOADBIN -Wl,-N -o lnxhdr lnxhdr.S
objcopy -O binary lnxhdr lnxhdr.bin
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