How To Install Grub4dos In Windows Xp
How To Install Grub4dos In Windows Xp Windows 7
Grub2 and Grub4Dos of AIO Boot can be booted from Windows Boot Manager without having to install them to your hard drive.Note: This method only applies to Legacy BIOS mode. UEFI mode is not supported.IntroduceWhen you boot into Windows, there is always a menu to select the Windows operating system that you have installed on your hard drive. If you have only one Windows operating system, the menu will not display and will automatically boot into that operating system.By editing the Windows Boot Manager menu, we can add or remove any menu if desired. The great thing is that both Grub2 and Grub4Dos from AIO Boot support booting from Windows Boot Manager. This makes it possible to add a menu to Windows Boot Manager without having to install Grub2 or Grub4Dos.Installing AIO Boot on your hard drive will give you more free space to integrate your packages, as well as faster speeds than a regular USB drive.
Install AIO BootFirst, you need to and to any drive you want.Note:. Uncheck Auto install Bootloader to skip installation of Grub2. After extracting, you can install Clover and Syslinux from AIOCreator.exe - Bootloaders. Select Use Hard Disk Drive to list all drives in the drop down list. Select the drive on which you want to extract the files and install AIO Boot. You should create a new partition to install AIO Boot.
This makes it easier to manage. Use FAT32 format for best support. New partitions can be created easily by using the feature of Disk Management.
Click OK to proceed with the extraction.We will now proceed with adding Grub2 nor Grub4Dos menus to Windows Boot Manager. Windows Boot ManagerWe will now use BootICE to add Grub2 and Grub4Dos to Windows Boot Manager. For Windows XP, we just need to add the menu to boot.ini. About the propossed way to make an entrance on BCD to directly load the AIO Boot internal grub4dos menu, (AIOToolsgrub4dosgrldr) it is wrong, bootmanager needs to load first grldr.mbr, then it looks for grld on the root of first partition and latter on the root of each partition so even if we change it to AIOToolsgrub4dosgrldr.mbr it will not find grldr as it is not located where it should be.To make it work we need to do the following:1.- If there is not any previous entrance in our BCD for grldr.mbr (If it exists ignore this and go directly to No. 2):Add grldr.mbr, grldr + menu.lst on the root of a partition and edit with BootIce our BCD to load/run grldr.mbr from its actual location.2.- Make an entrance in the menu.lst as following:title Load AIOBoot menu.lstfind –set-root /AIO/Tools/grub4dos/menu.lstconfigfile /AIO/Tools/grub4dos/menu.lstThis way the AIO Boot internal grub4dos menu will be found and loaded. Normally ‘grldr’ find /menu.lst, /boot/grub/menu.lst, /grub/menu.lst as default search when chainloaded or booted by defaultIf we chainload AIOToolsgrub4dosgrldr from boot manager menu, then AIOToolsgrub4dosgrldr look for /menu.lst, /boot/grub/menu.lst, /grub/menu.lst which will not be exist as AIOBOOT uses menu.lst as AIOToolsgrub4dosmenu.lst.So how chainloading of AIOToolsgrub4dosgrldr from Windows Boot Manager will show AIO Grub4dos menu??Please Describe?
Will we not have to edit menu inside ‘grldr’ file using BOOTICE?Regards.