Kon Boot For Windows Xp Download
Osoulo Lejeune
I have been trying to come up with an easier way of installing Windows and Linux dual booting on my laptop, not necessarily in that order. What we generally have to do is install Windows first, and then install linux and allow GRUB to handle Windows.
So what I'm trying to achive is to find a way to bypass that pesky installation process (windows) and just use an image to directly copy into my drive. This would also allow me to retain my boot manager (GRUB). (not that I cannot restore it afterwards, but it is Microsoft policy to monopolize, in this case denying the existence of other boot managers in the system).
I have little idea how booting works. What I managed to understand is that when you dual-boot Windows and Linux, you chain the windows bootloader to linux's. So what I am trying to achieve is to somehow get rid of the Windows bootloader.
So information like executing winload.exe resides in the BCD file. Now, I think bootmgr itself is executed by syslinux using the chain.c32 module. What I am trying to do is somehow execute the windows bootloader, i.e. winload.exe directly from syslinux (if possible), or modify bootmgr so that it executes winload.exe itself (whose path will be directly in the bootmgr executable) without looking for BCD or anything else.
If you have any idea whether there is a way to execute that winload.efi from the EFI shell (just a guess), or some other modification to GRUB so that it will boot Windows in EFI mode without the chainloader.
The grub4dos right now can chainload a bootloader (like NTLDR or BOOTMGR) because it can act as a replacement of the code contained in a "normal" bootsector (i.e. something like 300 bytes of machine code).
Depending on how much of an environment WinLoad expects to be present, it might be possible to invoke WinLoad directly. Michael Brown's wimboot invokes the BootMgr PE[1] directly, so it could invoke WinLoad directly, except that WinLoad probably wants more of an environment. You could try it!
To answer your original question, no. Windows cannot be loaded without going through it's own bootloader (in the case of UEFI installs, bootmgfw.efi). This is because Windows expects that bootmanager to be there AND to call winload.efi. If that does not happen, then Windows will crash until you fix the problem. There are many reasons to this (practical and ignorant). Mostly, it is because Microsoft wrote the bootmanager to handle all things (loading the OS, loading the recovery environment, pseudo pre-os environment, and etc). The only way to currently achieve any semblance of sanity is to chain load using Grub-efi.
Additional options such as the DVD drive, external harddrives or network boot should also be visible at that point. The UEFI bootloader usually resides on the \EFI (/boot/efi/) partition. As you have just copied the Windows harddrive image without properly installing Windows, the EFI partition of your current machine might not contain the proper bootloader. Thus it is necessary to
Also note that at least one manufacturer (Lenovo) ships products with a known bug that causes the system to refuse to boot unless the boot loader's name is either "Windows Boot Manager" or "Red Hat Enterprise Linux".
I just installed (actually I did so three times today) debian on a separate partition in my Win10 laptop (Asus K46CB), but though the installation went smoothly, no OS selection menu comes up upon boot, and Windows loads itself as it always has - i.e. I can't boot to debian at all over this lack of grub menu.
I also tried using EasyBCD on Windows to see if I could add debian as an option in the Windows boot menu, but EasyBCD refuses to work because it's a UEFI system. Though EasyBCD should work with UEFI with a few changes, there are no options in my bios/uefi utility to change anything to "legacy mode", let alone disable "secure boot".
I suggest you to download a clean iso from the distros may be a new ubuntu 1x.xx iso.(# In Windows environment) Then take a pendrive and make it bootable using RUFUS software then download 7zip and install it then get into the boot folder present in bootable drive you have created using RUFUS. Now using 7zip open the *.img file and copy the contents into the bootable drive which you have created using RUFUS.
The problem turned out to be in the partition I was choosing as the "device for boot loader installation". Choosing the drive didn't work, I had to choose the partition containing the Windows Boot Loader.
(To check which partition holds the Windows Boot Loader, open up GParted on your live USB and check which partition has the boot flag. That's the partition you need to select as the "Device for boot loader installation" during the installation process.)
I installed Ubuntu yesterday alongside Windows 7 and whenever I start my computer I don't have the option to boot Windows. When the computer starts it goes straight to Ubuntu without giving me an OS selection menu. When it goes to Ubuntu it gives me Ubuntu repair options and Ubuntu normal start option. I still have all of the Windows 7 files on my hard drive, but Windows 7 has no way to boot.
First thing first, you need to repair your WIn7 bootloader, and you can visit this page to learn how to do this. Write down on a piece of paper the required commands for fixing both boot and mbr. You'll be using those codes after getting to the Command Prompt screen.
Burn the iso image, and restart your computer with the new Boot Repair CD in tray. You can write Boot Repair iso image on a USB pendrive with Unetbootin tool if you don't have a regular CD to use. Read instructions on how to use Unetbootin in Linux/Ubuntu, they are located at the middle of this page: .
After Boot Repair cd or usb pendrive finish loading, you can press the 'Recommended Repair' option, wait to finish and after you get the message 'success' you can reboot and use Win7 and Ubuntu which will be present both in your start-up boot menu.
if not, you are probably screwed.Probable reason to that is windows was installed in LEGACY BIOS and u installed ubuntu in UEFI BIOS (provided your computer supports this new bios version) which means u have to reinstall everything.
I booted up on the Arch Linux bootable USB drive and installed to the 500GB SSD drive. I used archinstall 2.5.3 to install Arch Linux. No errors or problems when installing to the 500GB SSD. Boot loader is systemd.
My notes on Arch Linux (efitbootmgr) bootctl install varies a lot from everything I have been reading on the Internet. I just need to know how to add Windows 11 to systemd boot manager without causing unbootable system problems. In the past when I installed Linux to the systems, the Linux automated installers set up this automatically and it also used GRUB. I'd like to get used to systemd bootloader.
If you used two completely distinct ESPs on two completely distinct drives then you can't add the Windows bootloader to systemd-boot since systemd-boot will only read the Windows Loader from it's "own" ESP and only from the disk said ESP is on.
When attempting to use GRUB bootload, I removed systemd-bootloader from Arch Linux. Installed GRUB with many problems, but I was able to eventnually boot in to Arch Linux using GRUB. However, GRUB caused my system to run extremely slow on boot up. The AMD system would normally boot up in a few seconds. GRUB delayed the boot up time for several minutes. Then I removed GRUB, went back to systemd-bootloader. After getting confused on what I did right or wrong, I reloaded Arch Linux on the system. One missing item I did realize why GRUB may not have recognized the Windows parition or drive is that ntfs-3g was not installed.
I booted up on Arch Linux (archlinux-2023.03.01-x86_64.iso) on the USB drive, used archinstall v2.5.3 (did not update archinstall) to install to the secondary SSD drive (/dev/sda). The systemd boot menu only shows "Arch Linux" and "Reboot Into Firmware Interface" options. The Arch Linux Fallback option was not there. So I kept research systemd bootloader problems and how to add that option there.
I had to use the BIOS boot loader (F11 on the ASRock motherboard) and select the Windows Boot Manager to boot back in to Windows 11 (/dev/nvme0n1). Now I can toggle between Arch Linux and Windows 11 using the BIOS F11 menu without any problems. However, I want to use the systemd bootloader to manage the dual-boot. When I was testing Endeavour OS (EOS), systemd bootloader dual booted beween Arch Linux and Windows 11 without any problems (automatic setup/configure).
Then I read this Dual booting Arch Linux and Windows article, this helped me a lot. After mounting and copy the Microsoft EFI/ESP files over the Linux ESP, per the instructions, restarted Arch Linux. This booted me in to Windows 11 without any systemd boot menu. I had to use the BIOS F11 option to boot back in to Arch Linux using the Linux Boot Manager. This is when the Linux Boot Manger shows:
I looked at /boot/loader/entries did not see any new .conf files. I wanted to modify the .conf file to allow Windows 11 to boot as default. I could not locate any .conf file. I did read that the auto-window option is coming from:
I am running VirtualBox in Windows Server 2016. I want to start both VirtualBox and a VM within that when Windows boots. I have seen some posts about starting VirtualBox on Windows boot, but I have not gotten that to work. And even if I did, that would not autostart the VM. I feel there must be a way to do this, but hours of googling has not found the way.
It is not possible to do what you are asking as a service without using a third-party wrapper (read: another point of failure) to your system. You can, however, easily implement this as a Task via Task Scheduler that will run every time your system boots/starts before a user ever logs in.
If you want to run the virtual machine even without logging in to the system, you can use the VBoxVmService utility which runs one or more VirtualBox machines in headless mode as Windows services and starts them automatically on boot.
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