Re: Still no success with boot to NT on hda2

[David Balazic]

Uwe Dippel wrote:
> 
> --- David Balazic <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > Had - of course - tried all of this.
> > > Hide the first partition; check
> >
> > What happened ? Did it help ?
> 
> Sorry, my ambiguity here. 'check' meant 'tick, yes, done'

Just in case , what exact command did you use when hiding hda1 ?

What happened ? Did windows boot ? Not ? Was any error printed ? What ?
 
> > Delete windows :-)
> 
> What funny. Would rather have done it yesteryear. But this is the
> machine @work and I need it @times.
> 
> I am hoping to improve grub, which is already great !
> 
> Actually, it is even worse: I brought a disk from home and put it in as
> hdc1 (hd1,0) that contains simply the content of that C:. Nothing else.
> And it had been 'ghosted' to that pseudo-C: with immediate success. And
> boots perfectly with grub ('map'). So I am pretty sure that this
> partition (hda2) doesn't lack anything, because it is just another cast
> of that 'ghost' that I also threw to hdc1 without any problem. So if it
> is possible to boot easily to that 'ghosted' hdc1; the content of hda2
> can be mounted; with root (hd0,1) it shows a FAT16 filesystem (I didn't
> mention this earlier, I think); --- so why the hell wouldn't it want to
> boot ??

I don't think that anything is missing from your hda2.
It is just that MS code sometimes decides that it just won't work :-)

-- 
David Balazic
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