Idea #2639: Use NTLDR as boot loader option

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Written by spiderwebmail the 3 Mar 08 at 02:23. Category: Installation.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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To avoid problems or give user more choice the following option should be included in installation:

Instaling Bootloader:

(1) Grub (MBR) -> NTLDR
(2) NTLDR (MBR) -> GRUB

(A PACHED grub installed on a windows partition !!!)

This could avoid many problems to users who are in the middle of booting war.
Since windows rewrite mbr without asking, it causes some headaches to some people to get linux working...
Lets just leave him greed and dont push people around...

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Auzy wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 02:31

I hate to say it, but this is actually a good idea and will fix many issues.

Its like getting mingwin to run in wine and wine in mingwin. This just opens up more options. Theres no reason not to do it, so I think people should either ignore or +1.

peterjs wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 03:22

This is a good idea, except it's impossible, NTLDR doesn't support chainloading.

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Auzy wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 05:55

Huh, no, you can create an image of the grub bootloader and copy it onto the window drive, then add it to the .ini

possible

travis wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 05:55

I remember adding an option to my old windows boot.ini to boot into Fedora long ago, it was a pain, but it was doable. I see no reason Ubuntu shouldn't be able to add an option to it.

+1

rgenoud wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 08:23

Auzy is rigth, it's possible (and quite simple actually).

http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

The only problem is to write to the windows partition in order to add the grub stage1 file and to modify the boot.ini : There's no ntfs write support in the linux kernel (well, we can't change the size of a file nor add a new file).

ugm6hr wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 18:53

Too many options at installation is confusing. Perhaps just in the "Advanced" options...

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