I had a problem of my own with FreeDOS where NTLDR tried to boot FreeDOS directly even though I was an idiot and decided to install GRUB. I don't know who wrote the article on the wiki, but maybe (having been "last modified 06:30, 23 July 2007") it refers to an old version of grub4dos (0.4.2 ?) where both ways worked. Please find (apart the wiki) a single post on this or on 911cd board the uses C:\grldr.mbr Notation "C:\GRLDR" actually refer to the file A:\GRLDR). (Note that in the case when BOOT.INI is on floppy A, the Will have to write the GRLDR line in A:\BOOT.INI like this:Īnd shouldn't use the letter A like this: Have to use the letter C here in BOOT.INI, otherwise, NTLDRĪnd what's more, if you are booting NTLDR from a floppy, you
Other than C by the Windows device manager, it seems you still Is compressed, e.g., in a NTFS partition, it will not work.Įven if the drive letter of this disk has been changed to Partition(and likewise should the menu.lst file be). It should be copied to the root directory of another non-NTFS
Note that BOOT.INI is usually hiddenĪnd you must unhide it before you can see it. The GRLDR should be in the same directoryĪs BOOT.INI and NTLDR. Copy GRLDR to the root directory ofĭrive C: of Windows NT/2000/XP and append to C:\BOOT.INI Which could be used to boot into GRUB from the boot menu Update 1: Version 0.2.0 also brings out a new thing, GRUB for NTLDR, Since version 0.2.0 the recommended way to boot: But BE CAREFUL not to mess up your hard drive partition table!!!! see readme for details. You may also try installing by hand the GRLDR.MBR onto the MBR track, that is, the first track on the hard drive. GRLDR.MBR is intended to work with BOOTMGR of VISTA. You should use GRLDR instead, as mentioned in the readme, just like this: C:\GRLDR=. Only those GRLDR.MBR files that have exactly 8192 bytes in size can be successfully used in BOOT.INI. The usage of GRLDR.MBR in BOOT.INI is undocumented and only some GRLDR.MBR versions could be used in this way. You did not have a clear description on the line used in BOOT.INI, but I am guessing you might have employed the GRLDR.MBR. This time I am getting missing MBR-helper? (With and grub4dos directly in MBR it`s also working, but I want to start from NT bootloader.)
So I made another virtuel Windows XP and this time I used FAT32 (fast) format for the XP installer. From NT bootloader (boot.ini) I could start a well working grub4dos. I installed Windows XP on a VMware virtual disk with NTFS.
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