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Also if the new user of grub4dos for UEFI is not familiar with the use of WinNTSetup, BootIce, and/or certain command line commands it may be a hard and a long process for he/she to make all the process manually.



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Many of us here and also on the chinese forum page about this subject are agree the selection of the name grub4dos for UEFI was not the best option, because in first place it creates certain confusion and in fact it has nothing to do with dos, so some users in china call it G4E and I will use from now on that term too as it seems the shorter, our fellow steve6375 calls it grub4efi and maybe you will see other Alias too.


There is a set of auxiliary modules from a1ve called ntloader that may be used on grub4dos for MBR and UEFI versions, to boot a WinPE WIM, a VHD or a certain partition, see:


I have tested it at home in several PCs, booting fine using grub4dos for MBR/CSM and for UEFI from a USB 3.0 device several WinPE WIM and VHD files, but there is one PC with a UEFI firmware where it do not work on MBR/CSM or on UEFI, on all the others it works fantastic, so you will need to try it in your PC.


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As he is mentioning he wants to boot from partitions 1, 2 and 3, and he is using grub4dos (MBR version), so I asume his HD is allready MBR formated (as there are no more than 4 partitions this confirms that), and also because some of the partitions numbers mentioned can't be used on GPT to hold a OS.



USB_FORMAT will erase his full HD if used directly on it, and I don't think he would like that. WRONG USB_FORMAT can't be used on a internal HD.


As he is mentioning he wants to boot from partitions 1, 2 and 3, and he is using grub4dos (MBR version), so I asume his HD is allready MBR formated (as there are no more than 4 partitions this confirms that), and also because some of the partitions numbers mentioned can't be used on GPT to hold a OS.



USB_FORMAT will erase his full HD if used directly on it, and I don't think he would like that.






Jaclaz your solution worked - many thanks!!! I worked on this grub4dos issue for 6 hrs (msfn is having a new user automated activation url issue), your solution worked on the first try!! I have used WinSetupfromUSB 20-30 times on different machines with out need for your solution. Now all of a sudden i need your solution - why? why does this happen (date issue w/WinSetupfromUSB?, Ram memory hold by WinSetupfromUSB?) How does installing Grub4Dos via RMPREPUSB separately different from how WinSetup installs Grub during usb disk creation? Thanx again


RMPREPUSB is designed (and has quite a bit of tricks up it's little sleeves), to properly partition and format a USB stick and optionally install to it the grub4dos grldr.mbr to the MBR (and a few hidden sectors).


I want to install arch using grub4dos without any partitions and iso-writing. Just put iso on usb-stick, make some magic with grub4dos and install arch.

So, Now I can boot arch iso, but my boot from this iso crush.

Grub:


1) Do not install grub4dos to the first partition on the device, only to the mbr. I actually did this by mistake and was not able to get grub2 to boot from my usb until I reformatted the partition with a new dos partition table. I would constantly get an "unknown filesystem type" and be dropped in to the grub2 rescue-shell which is very limited.


NOTE: It is not required (as I once thought) to actually install grub2 to the mbr and then grub4dos over it. I found that by using the command above we can generate all the necessary files including core.img without actually touching the mbr. When /bin/true is specified it will 'do nothing successfully' when executed instead of overwriting the master boot record. Which is good.


After this we have the proper /boot/grub/ on the usb device, next we install grub4dos from Windows or whatever Linux you have grub4dos compiled on. Please make sure you are on the grub4dos machine now and not installing grub2 again. The grub4dos will not overwrite any grub2 files in /boot/grub/, only add new ones. Please change what is needed if you are installing grub4dos from Windows. It's very documented if you don't know as I don't since I only use Linux, except for Windows in a VirtualBox machine. To find out how to boot your usb directly into VirtualBox with a Linux host see the bottom of this post.


I've seen that one before as well. I suggest a clean partition table written with Linux with fdisk and to use mkdosfs to create a fat32 LBA partition on the drive. Then don't allow your WinGrub to format it if you still chose to use Windows. I would really suggest just using Linux to install the grub4dos also. You can grab the latest version and it's easy to compile/install even in a live distro and your package manager may even have it in the repo. I actually use two computers; grub4dos installed on one computer and grub2 on another.


Remember not to install Grub2 to the MBR; only grub4dos. Many repeat tries and fails can cause the partition table to become borked. Rewriting the partition table is different than simply formatting. One way to create it is with fdisk, fdisk /dev/sdb (or whatever your usb is) then use the o option to create the partition table. Next select n to create a new partition and then the t option to change the partition system id to c which is FAT 32(LBA). Use the a command in fdisk to give the partition the boot-able flag Lastly write it out with the w command. Finally use mkdosfs -L -F 32 /dev/sdb to create the fat 32 file system. You should be good to go then and able to follow the steps I laid out above. I found it much easier to use Linux than supposedly "easy to use" windows programs to do the entire process as those usually end up just causing problems either from variant versions or doing more than what you want them to.


Slitaz splits grub4dos into 2 tazpkgs

grub4dos we can ignore includes M$ filesystem tools grub.exe and bootlace for installing grub to M$ filesystem,grldr a.k.a. grubloader( :guides:frugal ).

grub4dos-linux which has grub-install is used by /usr/bin/tazinst the full slitaz installer to install grub to MBR. The grub in grub4dos is legacy grub.


I have a Windows based LiveOS that I run off a USB stick and use for capturing backup images, it has a grub4dos bootloader which works fine. I have this REALLY old (2001) XP system with a AMIBIOS that I need to boot and capture. it errors out saying "No GRLD", is there a setting I should be looking at to work around this or do i need to generate a new bootable without Grub? I figured Grub would boot on anything.


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