[syslinux] Booting Linux from Windows

[Martin Stolpe]

On Friday 03 June 2011 21:43:41 you wrote:
> On 06/03/2011 02:21 AM, Martin Stolpe wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > because of Windows' hibernation bug I want to boot Linux using the
> > Windows boot manager. I followed this guide:
> > http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_BCD but unfortunately
> > only "Boot error" is shown when I try to boot Linux.
> > 
> > Layout of the disk looks like this:
> > /dev/sda1   *      0+     16-     17-    131072   83  Linux  (Linux
> > boot partition)
> > /dev/sda2         16+  35476-  35460- 284830720    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> > (Windows partition)
> > /dev/sda3      35476+  60801-  25326- 203423768    f  W95 Erw. (LBA)
> > /dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Leer
> > /dev/sda5      35476+  36520-   1045-   8388608   82  Linux Swap /
> > Solaris /dev/sda6      36520+  60801-  24281- 195033112   83  Linux
> > (Linux root partition)
> > 
> > The boot flag is set to the Linux boot partition right now, because I
> > booted into Linux.
> > 
> > Am I missing something here? How does the partition boot sector know
> > where it has to search for the boot loader?
> 
> What version of Syslinux are you using?  Versions before 4.03 has a
> problem being booted off the Win7 MBR.
> 
> 	-hpa

I'm using version 4.04 from the official repository: 
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/syslinux/


Greetings
Martin