[syslinux] Any way to boot Windows NT (specifically Win2K) directly?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nazo wrote:
> I decided to install Win2K on my "retrogaming/htpc" system to take
> advantage of the dual processors in the thing when I'm multitasking a
> lot, but, it's kind of annoying having to use first one bootloader to
> chainload my Windows 98 partition, then, via NTLDR, selection Windows
> 2000 to get to Win2k.  I tried using the recovery console to try to
> force it to write a boot sector to that partition, then chainloading
> it, but, the chainloader just informs me the partition doesn't exist. 
> Obviously it doesn't help that the Win2k partition not only passes
> that 1024 boundary, but, is on a logical partition and everything (I
> wanted to use FAT32 so I could get to that partition thanks to free
> space concerns.  I won't be running any servers on there anyway and I
> doubt I'll ever forward any non-lan ports it's way, so I'm not too
> worried about file system security issues.)  Specifically, it's on
> hda8 in linux terms.
> 
> Since the chainloader doesn't seem to accept this for whatever reason,
> I'm wondering if there isn't a better way anyway.  It occurs to me to
> wonder if there isn't some means to directly boot a NT windows.  Say,
> perhaps some way you can boot a binary file as if it were a kernel?  I
> don't like having to rely on NTLDR (if it gets messed up, I have to
> drag out my old win2k disc to make repairs -- assuming I can find it,)
> and I think it's silly having multiple bootloaders in a row anyway.
> 

What do you mean it doesn't seem to accept it?  There might be a bug 
with using the chainloader on logical partitions, but it's supposed to work.

	-hpa