When booting windows I currently have to use an extracted boot sector to chain-load the OS, is there any merit to creating a method to execute NTLDR directly using a /reverse engineered/ version of the boot sector?
If I understood your question, you are currently doing a "kernel windows.bst". Instead you could do "chain.c32 hd0 1" to chainload the bootsector found in /dev/hda1, by passing the MBR completely. - Murali On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jacob Alifrangis <jalifrangis at authenticlick.net> wrote:> When booting windows I currently have to use an extracted boot sector to > chain-load the OS, is there any merit to creating a method to execute NTLDR > directly using a /reverse engineered/ version of the boot sector? > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >-- Murali ?????? ?? ??? ????, ???????? ?????? (What we know is only a handful, what we dont is the rest of the world)
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:13:07PM -0800, Jacob Alifrangis wrote:> When booting windows I currently have to use an extracted boot sector to > chain-load the OS, is there any merit to creating a method to execute NTLDR > directly using a /reverse engineered/ version of the boot sector?ReactOS has a GPL boot loader, FreeLdr, that currently boots Windows 2003 without using ntldr: <http://www.reactos.org/en/newsletter_37.html> Also, freeldr can be booted up as a multiboot module (see notes.txt), so you can start it under syslinux. It might be useful to you, either for booting windows 2003 or as a starting point for your own version. Current source is at: svn://svn.reactos.org/reactos/trunk/reactos/boot/freeldr -- lfr 0/0
More like: KERNEL=/NTLDR thanks On 3/3/08 5:49 PM, "Murali (????? ?????)" <murali at google.com> wrote:> If I understood your question, you are currently doing a "kernelwindows.bst".> Instead you could do "chain.c32 hd0 1" to chainload thebootsector found in> /dev/hda1, by passing the MBR completely.- Murali On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at> 5:13 PM, Jacob Alifrangis<jalifrangis at authenticlick.net> wrote:> When > booting windows I currently have to use an extracted boot sector to > > chain-load the OS, is there any merit to creating a method to execute NTLDR > > directly using a /reverse engineered/ version of the boot sector? > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private > replies to mailing list traffic. > >-- Murali ?????? ?? ??? ????,> ???????? ??????(What we know is only a handful, what we dont is the rest of> the world)_______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing> listSubmissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options> at:http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux Please do not send private> replies to mailing list traffic.