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From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntldr support
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 00:55:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5d587fb0908071555l383b0db4ib0c9cf94de68d1a8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090807114344.GO6695@thorin>

2009/8/7 Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:17:30PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>
>> ntldr is a boot loader like any other and it needs its configuration
>> and support files to work. Without them it fails (not sure how) but
>> that is not unexpected.
>
> I tend to agree, but in this particular case, it's conceivable that Microsoft
> didn't expect anyone to do this, and therefore neglected to provide a graceful
> response.
>
> Could anyone test it and report how this behaves?
>
> --
> Robert Millan
>
>  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
>  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
>  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
>

I tried putting the ntldr binary on an empty fat32 disk and loading
with the grub ntldr command.

The system just reboots.

Thanks

Michal



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-07 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-02 23:24 [PATCH] ntldr support Robert Millan
2009-08-04 18:36 ` Christian Franke
2009-08-04 19:27 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-04 20:09   ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-05  5:35     ` Christian Franke
2009-08-07 10:58       ` Robert Millan
2009-08-07 11:17         ` Michal Suchanek
2009-08-07 11:43           ` Robert Millan
2009-08-07 22:55             ` Michal Suchanek [this message]
2009-08-08 21:44               ` Christian Franke
2009-08-08 11:45             ` Yves Blusseau
2009-08-08 11:55               ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-08 21:57                 ` Christian Franke
2009-08-10 11:52                   ` Robert Millan
2009-08-10 18:57                     ` Christian Franke
2009-08-10 19:55                       ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-10 21:00                         ` Christian Franke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-25 23:28 Nando
2009-10-26  1:05 ` Robert Millan

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