On 01/21/2011 02:52 PM, yellow wrote: > Package: grub-common > Version: 1.98+20100804-11 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello > > I would like to use windows XP without emulation (so no wine, nor qmeu, or > vmware or others) > so directly to start with 100% power microsoft windows XP at normal speed and > performances > > - well you would tell me : dual boot man ! > > - well ok, but I do not want to install a NTFS and keep the RAW image of my > qmeu and use it from teh Boot Grub > that launches it like dual booting but will write all those stuff into RAW > image located into my ext3 > > While it is possible to make bootmgr/ntldr/any other program using BIOS calls think that a given file is a real disk by intercepting int 13h, it won't get you far. The problem is that the moment windows/any other modern OS switches to its own device drivers it will fail to find its boot device and throw error/bluescreen/reboot. GNU/Linux is able to do such tricks only because by the means of initramfs one has complete control over from where to mount the root. No such luxury in m$ OSes. While this is feasible by writing special disk driver which will add this "virtual disk", I doubt this is the right place to find the people with both right knowledge and motivation > please could you code that.,.. it is not that hard in principle, with using > all today's tools. > >
> Thank you in advnance ! > > Kind regards > Y. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages grub-common depends on: > ii base-files 5.10 Debian base system miscellaneous > f > ii dpkg 1.15.8.7 Debian package management system > ii gettext-base 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization > utilities > ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation > in > ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared > lib > ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.48-4 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper > use > ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared > lib > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime > > Versions of packages grub-common recommends: > ii os-prober 1.42 utility to detect other OSes on > a > > Versions of packages grub-common suggests: > pn grub-emu <none> (no description available) > pn multiboot-doc <none> (no description available) > pn xorriso <none> (no description available) > > -- no debconf information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel > > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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