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Hi ;). I made my multiboot iso in easyboot - now i need to make it bootable from my second hdd. I copyied all files and folders from "disc1" to root directory of partition(i made her active) and ... Win 7 installer booted up, no easyboot menu ;/. This is becouse of file "bootmgr" windows 7 so i copied "ezldr" from ezboot directory to root of partition and renamed it to bootmgr. Now easyboot menu boot up but win7 not. I think I must edit MBR of my second disk or hexedit win7 bootfile and here we are... How i can do it? Thanks for help ;)
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@arasso12

Quote: "so i copied "ezldr" from ezboot directory to root of partition and renamed it to bootmgr. Now easyboot menu boot up but win7 not"

Interesting (and exiting) experiments you are dealing with @arasso12 :)

Can you please tell me what file-system you have formatted harddisk to.
Because I haven't managed to make EasyBoot-files to launch correctly from NTFS-file-system but works okay from FAT32-file-system.
So what file-system has that harddisk volume of yours ???


Anyway you can test this solution:
1. Make an copy of original bootmgr and rename file to win7mgr
2. Copy win7mgr to the root of harddisk where you have your renamed ezldr (by you renamed to bootmgr)
3. Download "grub-kicker-image" from HERE and put file in folder ezboot
4. Create menu in EasyBoot and use menu command:  run win7.img
Test and see what happens :cool:

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I formatted my harddisk to fat32(I thought that NTFS just mustn't work ;o). Ok I checkt it out in hour ;)

EDIT
grub error ...In virtual machine so i guess in real machine won't work too ;(


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@arasso12

Quote: "I formatted my harddisk to fat32"

As I expected - EasyBoot cannot be run from NTFS must be FAT32 :(

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Quote: "grub error ...In virtual machine so i guess in real machine won't work too ;(

Hmm... ???  It should work - but I'll test on another computer
However I do not have the time this evening - I'll let you now as soon as possible :O
I need to install WinXP to a FAT32-volym and then test you ideas :)
Note: this take some time, but tomorrow I most likely have found out what's going on :cool:

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PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 27 2011,15:10 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

Thanks for Your help & time :). I look forward to hearing from you.

Surprise... On real machine your solution works :) Win 7 installer boot up well but the rest of my multiboot iso (backtracka, slax, ubuntu ) stop working ;/. In backtrack "Image checksum error". I think all of my tools/systems based on linux stop working ;(

Here is screenshot of my multiboot iso menu ss


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@arasso12

Quote: "Now easyboot menu boot up but win7 not. I think I must edit MBR of my second disk or hexedit win7 bootfile and here we are"

I'm confused... Are you saying you can run Win7 on an harddisk that is formatted to FAR32 :O
Or is your goal to launch Win7 installed to harddisk 0ne (primary drive) ???

I'm confused

Please confirm above what your goal is.
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In meantime I tested following to an WinXP-system (FAT32- filesystem on harddisk)

1. Used menu command in EasyBoot:  run /ntldr1
2. Renamed existing ntldr to ntldr1 on the root of the harddisk
3. copied folder ezboot to the root of harddisk
4. Copied ezldr from folder ezboot to the root of harddisk
5. Renamed ezldr to ntldr

Conclusion:
1. EasyBoot menu was correctly launched
2. I could use menu command "run ntldr1" to boot into the WinXP-OP-system


I tested Win7-system (NTFS-files system)
From this point I injected grub MBR and copied grldr and text-file menu.lst to the root of harddisk
I could now launch EasyBoot-ISO-file and from EasyBoot menu launch win7.img (run win7.img)
I changed name to bootmgr to win7mgr (though really not needed if you edit menu.lst inside win7.img to instead point to bootmgr and not win7mgr)
Anyway Win7 started up as expected.

However this involves changing MBR to harddisk to grub-MBR which easily can be done READ HERE

Attention! Be careful to point to the right harddisk drive when using this tool :O
If you still are intereste I can show you what parameters you shall use in text-dile "menu.lst" to launch EasyBoot (we cannot launch EasyBoot with folder ezboot - we must launch ISO-file created by EasyBoot)

But I'm for sure interested how you managed to run Win7 on FAT32 - did you ???

EDIT: Quote: "the rest of my multiboot iso (backtracka, slax, ubuntu ) stop working"
Several Linux-based systems cannot run on NTFS - but should be able to run from FAT32 :cool:
However you need some files on the "new root" as well read post nr;2 HERE

regards balder


Edited by balder on Oct. 28 2011,09:25

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So I have 2 hdd:
hdd1=500gb with installed windows 7.

hdd2=80gb with multiboot partition. I want to reinstall my computer, boot win 7 installer from there. File system is FAT32.

So... on hdd2 i an going to keep only installers not installed systems. I will checkt it later, thanks.

edit

I manage to run from grub directly win xp iso, win 7 iso, backtrack(extracted to root partition) but what about the rest i don't know ;/. Could You please help me with menu.lst? I can't do this by myself ;/

EDIT

OK, Almost all done ; D. I need help only with:

What I need to type in menu.lst to boot up kaspersky rescue disc? At the moment i have(isn't working):

title KASPERSKY 2012 Rescue Disk
root (hd0,7)
map /rescue/rescue.iso (0xff) || map --mem /rescue/rescue.iso (0xff);
map --hook
root (0xff);
chainloader (0xff);

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and:

title Hiren's Boot CD 14.1
find --set-root /hirens.iso
map /hirens.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)

OK, hirens is working but iso is on partition where I installed grub. What if I want to change partition with hirens.iso? I tryied many combinations but nothing work, if someone could help me I will be gratefull! Greetings


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