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Re: [REQUEST]: GRUB2 - As replacement for the Windows BootLoader


From: Chip Panarchy
Subject: Re: [REQUEST]: GRUB2 - As replacement for the Windows BootLoader
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 18:47:47 +1000

Thanks Joey, finally got around to testing it.

Getting;

Error 1 "Bad filename (must be absolute pathname or blocklist)"

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chip Panarchy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks
>
> Tomorrow, when I boot into Linux, I'll add that line to my menu.lst.
> Then I'll tell you if it works or not.
>
> I was already suggested to request on ReactOS, so I did;
> http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6889
>
> Thanks again for replying, if there's any more advice you'd like to
> give, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Panarchy
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Joey Korkames <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Chip Panarchy writes:
>>
>>> If not, can we please work on a [PATCH] for GRUB2 to add support for
>>> the Windows kernel?
>>
>> Does this work?
>>
>>  insmod ntfs
>>  set root=(hd0,1)
>>  chainloader bootmgr
>>
>> I don't have Vista/2008 so I can't test . . .
>>
>> Perhaps bean's "loadbin" could be extended to support wrapping bootmgr:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg03902.html
>> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/grubutil/
>>
>> P.S: You might get more interest from the ReactOS crew (but NT5, not NT6, is
>> their target right now)
>> http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/boot/freeldr/
>>
>> -joey
>>
>>
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