RE: Can I partition a disk and make it bootable for windows from linux?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Spongebob
> Sent: Monday, 24 January 2005 9:00 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Can I partition a disk and make it bootable for
> windows from linux?
>
> Andrew Walbran wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 6:58 am, Spongebob wrote:
> >> How can I make grub start windows in safe mode?
> > You don't. GRUB chain-loads the Windows boot-loader, you
> should enter
> > safe mode in the same way as you would if you weren't using
> GRUB (from
> > memory you press F8 while Windows is loading; it may depend what
> > version of Windows you are using).
>
> Is there any way to make grub delay a little? Windows is
> beyond the point where I can use the key (it's F5, I forget
> what F8 does -- command line
> maybe?) to enter safe mode really fast. I have about the time
> of a fast mouse double-click to press F5 after hitting enter
> in the grub menu.
>
It's a bit of a hack, but if you're still trying to work this out you might
want to do this...
Edit the boot.ini of the Windows partition to contain two entries, and
modify the time that it pauses, you can press F5 in this time and it will
boot into safe mode. For example if your boot.ini reads
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
Change it to
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional"
for a 5 sec wait for you to press F5. The file is a hidden file, so make
sure you have enabled show protected operating system files...you can also
get to it via Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Startup & Recovery
Settings (Windows XP Only?).
Anyways, hope that helps.
Byron
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