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Re: Win2K Multi-Boot Rev 1.1
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adrian15 |
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Re: Win2K Multi-Boot Rev 1.1 |
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Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:35:45 +0100 |
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Web Clark (RR) escribió:
it is useful to
"dd -if=/dev/zero of=zeros; rm zeros" to fill unused space
I did not know this useful trick. I would have used dd directly towards
the partition not to a file :) .
At this point I detected that the ntldr file is different
in *many* places from a copy of ntldr that I saved six
months ago. This is especially disturbing because it came
from the *same* Windows 2K install CD. I would tend to
say that this is not possible! Yet it happened. Both
appear to work. I have no explanation.
This means that NTLDR writes something to its own. Can you please me
send me (personally) various NTLDR files that should be the same one so
that I can "study" them?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1 count=4 seek=440
I already told you in another email you can do this with SGD.
dd (cd)/boot/sgd/brs/all_zeroes.bin (hd0) 0 440 4
You can fetch stage* files from the cdrom and try to install it into
your hard disk to make some tests.
I suppose that means that the step where you boot linux and issue the dd
command can be avoided. Or am I wrong?
To break Window's connection to a partition, hide that
partition and clear the drive serial number using the
clearSN routine given above. This will cause Windows
to invalidate everything it knows about that drive and
to re-ennumerate the partitions on the next boot. It
will write a new S/N to the drive (Sort of like a dog
peeing on a fire hydrant), tell you that it is installing
new hardware, and want to reboot afterward.
Can't you compare with kompare program w2k system before and after this
re-enumerating so that we know where the hell does w2k write this S/N
drives / partitions asignations?
If you do not know how to compare two folders with kompare do not
hesitate to ask me personally.
Linux
Configure grub to un-hide the Linux and Linux-swap
partitions (The Linux boot partition is required to
be unhidden by grub, I *assume* but have not tested
that the other Linux paritions and the Linux-swap
partition are required to be un-hidden by Linux),
TYPO: paritions should be partitions
adrian15
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