[syslinux] chainboot Windows on second drive
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sat May 31 08:13:14 PDT 2008
forum at draxar.com wrote:
>
> I can boot Fedora and the rescue Windows system with extlinux but I can't boot
> my regular Windows system on raid0.
> Raid0 is a 'fakeraid' (ich9r) but the problem should not be here.
> With grub, I have to swap drives to chainboot Windows using map commands.
> I can't find such command for extlinux and I guess this is the problem. If I try
> to chainboot Windows XP, it will start my rescue Windows system instead.
>
I haven't implemented one, because this is only the second request I've
gotten for this in about a decade. "Swapping disks" is cantakerous and
means leaving a BIOS shim in place -- not particularly difficult stuff,
but it also hasn't been a priority.
It's rather sad that Windows still hasn't learned to just use the boot
drive as passed to it. Microsoft seem allergic to doing things sanely.
-hpa
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