From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1RdkWC-0005Me-LJ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:25:16 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdkW5-0005HU-6c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:25:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdkVz-0000RK-3p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:25:09 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:58791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdkVy-0000RE-Vn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:25:03 -0500 Received: by wibhq12 with SMTP id hq12so3447897wib.0 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:25:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=B5m30BYhnBI5ut8ijJlq2A0B94nZVjhVCddh/6X42ek=; b=GCGuPcypZp5h4NSUrPYOy7MD/ZMvhP6e5vfrcUETGKKASpJWOfXNpsqQXJA4Da0Rsn zo/wmH5Hgrj2riFpETuGbwCo5reQsZfhI5kNeRYXc/ZNjed0gyusXP1y5b0X1NQZ5Hrz R60FzBR98nl3e8ecvz19QXKLPadCZoCg61fmo= Received: by 10.180.107.134 with SMTP id hc6mr21838767wib.21.1324567501706; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:25:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (67-232.197-178.cust.bluewin.ch. [178.197.232.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fi11sm10102191wbb.9.2011.12.22.07.25.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:25:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EF34BC6.8090207@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:24:54 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111114 Icedove/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Problem with booting any non-linux iso from grub2 menu References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.212.169 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:25:14 -0000 On 20.12.2011 21:09, Alejandro González de Aguilar wrote: > Dear Grub2's developer team, > > I've spent several days trying to do something I get using grub4dos: > > - booting a Windows 7 Installer ISO (with bootmgr) from the menu and... Windows doesn't support loading from such config. While it's possible to simulate disk through BIOS it won't get you far as windows will lose the disk the moment it uses native drivers > - booting a Hiren's Boot Cd ISO also from the menu > AFAIR Hiren is DOS-based. You can try load it using memdisk from syslinux package as intermediary (remeber to use linux16 and initrd16). But even under DOS some tools may choose to use direct access and so will fail. I feel like it's more appropriate to use GNU/Linux CDs in most cases which is aware of it being loaded the peculiar way rather than using tricks. -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko