Re: Problem with booting any non-linux iso from grub2 menu

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 20.12.2011 21:09, Alejandro González de Aguilar wrote:
> Dear Grub2's developer team,
>
> I've spent several days trying to do something I get using grub4dos:
>
> - booting a Windows 7 Installer ISO (with bootmgr) from the menu and...
Windows doesn't support loading from such config. While it's possible to 
simulate disk through BIOS it won't get you far as windows will lose the 
disk the moment it uses native drivers
> - booting a Hiren's Boot Cd ISO also from the menu
AFAIR Hiren is DOS-based. You can try load it using memdisk from 
syslinux package as intermediary (remeber to use linux16 and initrd16). 
But even under DOS some tools may choose to use direct access and so 
will fail.
I feel like it's more appropriate to use GNU/Linux CDs in most cases 
which is aware of it being loaded the peculiar way rather than using tricks.

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko