Grub2Win is an open source program to safely dual-boot Windows and Linux. iso mapping 'visible' to Windows:īut I am not familiar with it and cannot say how exactly it should be used.Intuitive software that can setup a dual-boot system with Windows and Linux If I recall correctly burg (a 'bettered' version of GRUB2) includes the code needed to do.

We need to do the tests on 'alternate' VM's or wait for further details from drummerdp on what exactly worked for him and where. I have no reason (apart the logical impossibility if the code has not been added to GRUB2 ) to doubt about drummerdp's report, and it is also possible that (set apart the issue with the 'set root' instead of root) what he reported as working is either a 'particular build' or the test was made to 'peculiar' hardware (real or virtual). It still seems like (as expected) the loopback device established by GRUB2 is not 'seen' by the booting PE (this would be consistent with the references I provided) but still it is possible that the needed code has actually be added to GRUB2 and the issue is with Virtualbox. Good, now the sintax is correct, at least. Give it a try and let me know how you make out. Note: This project was previously called grub24dos. There is an alternative download available for XP / 2000 users.

This makes multi-booting much less risky. Grub2win uses the Windows bootmgr / bcd to boot grub from a normal NTFS directory on the C: drive. The software requires only one small directory on the C: drive, less than 5 MB.

Installation is simple and takes only seconds. All commonly used file systems for Windows, Linux and Mac are supported. I currently have 7 Linux partitions on one GPT disk as well as Mac and Windows partitions.Īdvanced scripting, searches and many other functions are available at boot time. This gets around the old 4 partition MBR limit. Grub2 supports extremely large drives and GPT partitions. Grub2win lets you boot the officially released GNU grub 2.00 from Windows 7, Windows 8 or Vista. I recently set up a project on sourceforge called grub2win.

For mac instal Grub2Win 2.3.7.3