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Re: Windows,grub and grub2


From: Viswesh S
Subject: Re: Windows,grub and grub2
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 02:08:25 -0700 (PDT)



----- Original Message ----
From: Bean <address@hidden>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, 30 August, 2008 11:01:18 AM
Subject: Re: Windows,grub and grub2

> Hi,
>
> I thinks it's caused by partition entry pointer %esi which isn't
> correct in grub2, please see if this patch fixes the problem.
>
> --
> Bean
>

Hi,

BTW, you should use the following command:

set root=(hd0,1)
chainloader +1

It's not the same as chainloader (hd0,1)+1, as chainloader command
would use the value of root to decide the boot partition index.

--
Bean
 
Hi,
 
There was no need for the initial partition to me made active, as it was already active.So trying that didnt help out anyway.
 
Initially I was not calling set root=(hd0,1).
 
But even after I use it, the results were the same.
 
The location 7c00 was good, so the boot record is getting copied correctly.
 
I am repeating my earlier doubt, are we sure that,the assembly part of both grub-legacy and grub2 doesnt have any changes with respect to grub2, especially in th
 
I still feel, there might be a problem with that, as I feel we are jumping into boot record of windows and then going to an infinite after dumping the error :A disk read error occurred'
 
Viswesh


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