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Grub2 booting Dell Diagnostics


From: Ole Reier Ulland
Subject: Grub2 booting Dell Diagnostics
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:56:36 +0100
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I have sent this e-mail to address@hidden without getting any useful 
replies, so now I try this e-mail-address.

The computer is a Dell Dimension 8300, with a SATA HDD with Grub2, Linux and 
data partition, and a IDE HDD with Dell Diagnostics, Windows and data 
partition.

I had to give up on Grub because Grub seems not to be able to boot Windows on 
a different HDD than where the Grub is, and bios is not able to start Grub on 
an IDE HDD when there is a SATA HDD.

I attempt to have the "Dell Diagnostics" partition to be bootable from Grub2 
menu.

Grub2 produces an option for booting Windows in the menu that is not in the  
/boot/grub2/custom.cfg file. What I have done is to make a copy of the 
automatically produced menu entry and made one myself in the custom.cfg file. 
An identical copy booted Windows. So now is the question of how to change it 
so it will boot the other partition on the same HDD. I changed the menu line,  
"msdos2" to "msdos1" since I am now booting the first partition and not the 
second, and the UUID. I believe those to be correct, but what remains is the 
file system type.

QUOTE from /boot/grub2/custom.cfg,

menuentry 'Dell Diagnostics (on /dev/sda1)' {
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod fat
    set root='hd0,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-
efi\=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 O7D4-0318
    else
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 07D4-0318
    fi
    drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
    chainloader +1
}

END QUOTE

When Grub2 boots Mageia4 on file system id "83" (Linux) the menu says, "insmod 
ext2".
When Grub2 boots Windows on file system id "7" (HPFS/NTFS/exFAT) the menu 
says, "insmod ntfs".
What shall I then use in the menu in "insmod xxx" when I want to boot Dell 
Diagnostics on file system id "de" (Dell Utility)? Unless this booting needs 
something else, that the Windows partition did not need, it is not "fat", 
"vfat" nor "DellUtility".

As the menu entry is right now it only causes the computer to restart.

Sincerely,

Ole Reier Ulland
Norway



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