From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MYOsi-0004It-EQ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:37:04 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYOsh-0004Im-Ic for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:37:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYOsd-0004Ia-3W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:37:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49903 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYOsd-0004IX-0b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:36:59 -0400 Received: from mailout01.t-online.de ([194.25.134.80]:56693) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYOsc-00052m-JE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:36:58 -0400 Received: from fwd10.aul.t-online.de by mailout01.t-online.de with smtp id 1MYOsY-0002EU-01; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:36:54 +0200 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (bH-5rmZUYhEPlp87A3lwtDUevsxjRaL8lUF7veAswuLNri8f5MIWfd9Aj5XTqLJQe5@[217.235.239.161]) by fwd10.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1MYOsJ-272d160; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:36:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4A787FC0.9030101@t-online.de> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:36:48 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090403 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20090802232422.GA23320@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20090802232422.GA23320@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: bH-5rmZUYhEPlp87A3lwtDUevsxjRaL8lUF7veAswuLNri8f5MIWfd9Aj5XTqLJQe5 X-TOI-MSGID: 2a583db4-ac4f-40be-be5a-f6450a35664f X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntldr support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:37:03 -0000 Robert Millan wrote: > This patch implements a loader for NTLDR boot semantics (which are > the same in BootMGR, hence both are supported). > > It still needs some cleanup in chainloader.c before it can be merged [1], > but I submit it so that others can test it and report if it works for > them. > > Tested with WinXP in a VM: Before the test, original boot code behind partition boot sector was destroyed. (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 seek=1 count=20) Then this fails: root=(hd0,1) chainloader (hd0,1)+1 boot But with the patch this still works: root=(hd0,1) ntldr /ntldr boot Thanks. -- Regards, Christian Franke