Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> The version that gets installed from the CD might not be the same as the 
> one installed *on* the CD.

Good point, good point. I never ran into that before, but you could be 
right there.

> Personally I use grub4dos for that. That way, I do not need to change 
> anything on the Windows side when I update GRUB on the Linux side. 

Unless GRUB rewrites the per-sector partition, I don't need to change 
anything on the Vista side either. I didn't have trouble changing, for 
example, the menus, IIRC.  I'll check it out.

There's also a program called EditBCD or some such that can install a 
variety of boot loaders. I was just trying to do it all with native code.

> Also, should you not be doing "setup (hd0,1)" if you want to chain-load 
> from the Vista boot-loader?

Should I?  What GRUB actually does when it sets up is still kind of 
mysterious to my. I'm basing my commands on what I did when I set up a 
bunch of 32-bit machines at work - after restoring the dump, the script 
ran those grub commands and then it would boot. (Well, not exactly, 
because it was a RAID at work, so it had to do it with two different 
devices as root.)

I'll try it with setup (hd0,1) next, and with a chroot first. Thanks for 
the advice!

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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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