Hi Leslie,
thanks for your response.
I'm on Ubuntu which uses Grub2 by default (but executed by grub*, not grub2*),
so no idea about yum.
I didn't used mkconfig, but simply
sudo update-grub
which I guess, it does the same.
After, every operation systems appears properly in the boot menu, but only the 1st of the Windows
OSs boots successfully, even if I tweak the grub.cfg with the described "parttool (hd0, 1) hidden+"
setting.
Regards,
-Ulf
Am 28.01.2013 21:56, schrieb Leslie S Satenstein:
Worked for me.
Do install all the yum updates after installing Fedora. Then execute
sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
That should give you a grub that includes every operating system on your
computer.
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--- On *Mon, 1/28/13, Ulf Zibis /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Ulf Zibis <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can Grub start Windows XP from "other" partition
To: "Felix Miata" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Monday, January 28, 2013, 1:33 PM
Hi All, hi Felix,
as I'm not subscribed to this list, please cc me while answering, e.g. by "Reply
all".
Maybe you remember this discussion.
Now I've found a possibility to have 2 WinXP installations, both originally installed
on "C:",
alternatively running on one disk.
As I still was unable to boot a Windows by Grub from a logical partition
(only NTLDR can do
that, but in my case resolves incompatible drive letter), I deleted the
sda2 recovery
partition, to use it for the old WinXP installation.
First I tried this:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#DOS_002fWindows
It works for to boot the Win-installation on sda1, but it dosn't work for
the one on sda2 (~
10 seconds after WinXP boot screen I got a blue-screen).
So the only thing I found out, that works, is to swap the order of those
partitions in the
partition table:
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 3038 3039- 24410736 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 16418 19456 3039 24410767+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 3039 5390 2352 18892440 83 Linux
....
exchange/toggle with:
/dev/sda1 16418 19456 3039 24410767+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 * 0+ 3038 3039- 24410736 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 3039 5390 2352 18892440 83 Linux
....
Unfortunately grub can't do that until now, so I'wd like to suggest an
enhancement (is this
the right place here?) e.g.:
parttool (hd0,1) swap-order (hd0,2)
Thanks,
-Ulf
On 2012-11-17 01:10 (GMT+0100) Ulf Zibis composed:
I have an old bad running WinXP installation, which was installed on
partition
1 as C:.
Now I want to move this installation to another partition and make a
fresh
WinXP installation on
partition 1.
For some reasons, I want to have the possibility to run the old
installation
later. I believe, that
I can run it, if I manually "hide" the 1. partition and mark the 2. as
active/boot, so Windows will
guess the 2. partition as C:.
I Grub smart enough to do that for me when booting the old Windows
partition
from the 2. partition?
Ideally I would like to move the old WinXP installation to a "logical"
partition. Would that also work?
So my preferred partitioning would be like:
Primary partition 1: new Windows XP installation
Primary partition 2: Thinkpad Recovery (physically at the end of the of
the
harddrive)
Primary partition 3: Ubuntu
Extended partition 4:
Logical partition 5: Ubuntu swap
Logical partition 6: Data
Logical partition 7: Backup
Logical partition 8: old bad Windows XP installation (Copy from
originally C:)
> Windows primary partitions cannot be "moved" except via sophisticated
understanding and
working knowledge of partitioning and the Windows registry.
Some time ago I was able to manually hide partition 1 and flag partition 2
for boot. In that
case, the "old" Windows was moved from primary partition 1 to primary
partition 2. IIRC then
the "old" Windows booted properly without any registry change. In MBR I set:
1BE: 80 -> 00
1C2: 07 -> 17
1CE: 00 -> 80
(This hack should not work, if the "old" Windows is moved into a logical
partition in the
extended area.)
IIRC, the boot manager, distributed with the old commercial Powerquest
Partition Manager, used
exactly this technique to manage multi-boot on multiple Windows
installations.
I would be happy, if Grub 2 could somehow do the same, and revert the
change when booting from
another partition. This would necessitate to delete the Thinkpad Recovery
partition or install
Linux to a logical partition.
So still preferentially I would like Grub 2 to boot the new Windows
installation from primary
partition 1 and the "old" Windows installation from any logical partition,
but having the
systemdrive named as C: in both cases.
I remember that I had read a tutorial about "duplicating Windows" to 2
partitions for the
purpose to have a working installation and a test installation to try out
dangerous things
without corrupting the first. I'm pretty sure, that the 2nd one was created
by just copying
the 1st, and if booted into the 2nd, partition 1 appeared as D:.
Unfortunately I do not find this tutorial again by Google.
> Windows needs a primary to be C:, but it needn't be "installed" to C:.
In other words, Windows needs the NTloader, boot.ini etc. in the first
Windows-visible-native-typed partition which is always named as C:. If
Windows itself is
"installed" in any other other partition, it would be named different, e.g.
D:, E: ... right?
Also Grub 2 is not able to boot Windows from a logical partition, if there
is no
Windows-visible-native-typed primary partition?
> What you can do is designate the new installation be "installed" to a
logical, as long as
there is a C:/primary to boot from. If there are no other Windows-native
partition types, the
logical will be D:, where the new XP would be installed and run from after
booting from C:,
much like Linux can have a separate /boot instead of having everything on /.
Yes, that should work. Then I would have the "old" Windows in C: and the
new installed Windows
in D:, meaning, that the system drive would be D:
But I want it vice versa, to later have the possibility to simply delete the
"old" Windows
partition.
> If you now have Grub on the MBR, the Windows installation will overwrite
it with standard PC
MBR code. Before starting another Windows installation if you install Grub
to your Ubuntu /
partition, then either of Windows or Linux can chainload the other via the
standard MBR code
Windows will install, as spelled out on
http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/install-doz-after.html which
should help understanding multiboot with more than one Windows as well as
with Linux.
Do I understand right, that here Grub 2 can chainload Windows via the hda1,
even if hda3 is
the "active" partition?
- Ulf
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