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Guy:
It would good to get some feedback from people using this on Vista and Win7, and other versions of Windows, just to confirm that it works.
maro:
--- Quote from: Guy on May 30, 2011, 02:10:24 AM ---It would good to get some feedback from people using this on Vista and Win7, and other versions of Windows, just to confirm that it works.
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Sooo very true (and hence the point I brought it up).
I only use WinXP (or older) myself. Even though I won last year a Win7 Ultimate DVD (and license) at a meeting, I still have no desire to put it on any real HW, and I'm currently a bit short of time (and disk space) to run a test in a VM. One hopes that there are at least one user of each newer version that could run such a test ...
jur:
--- Quote from: roberts on May 29, 2011, 07:32:59 PM ---@jur, I don't see brub in the grub4dos.tcz on which this starter pack is based. I have no desire to "adopt" .....
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Oops fat fingers, must be 'grub'
jur:
--- Quote from: roberts on May 30, 2011, 12:29:13 AM ---Adding the additional entry to boot.ini did not result in a Windows menu, instead XP booted directly. Only after the many steps to force XP to display a boot menu, and then I needed to increase the time for the user to make a selection.
If, however, there is no boot.ini for newer versions of Windows, then using boot.ini is a moot point.
If Vista and Win7 are able to be chain loaded then existing starter pack should work.
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Unfortunately no. The boot stanza instructs grub to search for boot.ini and set that partition as root. So it will fail with Vista and Win 7.
SvOlli:
Better try it like this:
--- Code: ---title Boot Windows NT
find --set-root /bootmgr && chainloader /bootmgr
find --set-root /ntldr && chainloader /ntldr
--- End code ---
This way it will work, even when the boot sector of the Windows partition is broken.
Updated: since the ntldr was replaced by bootmgr, we need to try both, if /bootmgr succeeds, /ntldr will not be tried. The first version I posted here first would not work. Sorry.
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