Let's boot with a live cd and open a terminal. Once grub has been installed to a partition we need to get its boot sector to a file in order to boot it from Windows. If program ask for boot drive just select your windows partion.Download and run EasyBCD 1.7.2(or any version i think).If we are geeks and classical we will have to edit boot.ini or the new Vista file manually in order to make If we use easybcd we can avoid having to copy a file from a live cd to our Windows partition and setting up the boot. Please continue reading at: Common Final Solution Common Final SolutionĪs a final solution we need somehow Windows to chainload our Linux partition. Let's suppose that you know that your Linux partition is /dev/sda3 This installs first part of Grub2 to the first sector of partition containing the Grub folder. Please continue reading at: Common Final Solution GRUB2 solution (on its own)Īs long as I know GRUB2 cannot install itself on its own. (The (hd2,3) must be how grub sees the partition during boot-up) (Usually the same as the Linux partition) Say it is (hd2,3) and /dev/sdb4. To get started we need to identify the partition containing the Grub folder. We will use the 'device' function of the grub-shell to ensure that Grub uses the correct map between the bios drives and linux devices, and also to ensure that Grub uses the hard drive numbers. This installs Stage1 of Grub to the first sector of partition containing the Grub folder. Please continue reading at: Common Final Solution GRUB solution (Linux shell) (Usually the same as the Linux partition) Say it is (hd0,3) (Usually, but not always, identified in Linux as: /dev/sda4).īoot with your grub disk or with your already installed grub.

This method is only valid when you want to boot a Linux partition that it is found in the same hard disk as the windows one (i.e. Problematic solution TODO EXPLAIN THE USE OF LIVESWAP WHEN DETECTED HARD DISK ORDER IS NOT OK. SITUATION WHEN GRUB FILES AND BOOT SECTOR ARE NOT THE SAME PARTITION Please continue reading at: Common Final Solution Advanced solution Select the partition where GRUB it is found (i.e.TODO: Talk about Neogrub that it is included with EasyBCD I think. Is there a safe way to access Linux on the external drive and have xp on the internal drive while being able to disconnect the external drive from pc at any time? (You should run Fix Boot of Windows for your internal hard disk before these steps.)Īdrian15 advice for this kind of task is #Classical solution.I have Linux in my second hard disk and I follow other howto instructions but I cannot get it to be chainloaded from Windows.How do I chainload GRUB from Windows Vista.GRUB is a great but I prefer not to install it on my mbr.

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