
added advanced option for adding persistence partition for Linux sources.added better handling of illegal characters for Linux/Other ISO source file name.*: we are downloading 2 versions because 0.4.6 line gives me Segmentation fault when running bootlace. Reference to grub4dos documentation, quite old but gold! 4-desktop-amd64.isoġ) Don’t use vanilla grub4dos, that is OLD!ģ) Download also the latest 0.4.6 release, it usually haves new features!Ĭ) Run grub4dos-0.4.5c/, this WILL OVERWRITE THE MBRĭ) Mount your drive with commandline or via UIĮ) Copy cp grub4dos-0.4.6a/grldr grub4dos-0.4.6a/sample/menu.lst grub4dos-0.4.6a/sample/default į) Customize /menu.lst with your favorite iso/commands Kernel /casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/preseed/ed boot=casper persistent iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu- 12. Such a drive can handle windows installations (more info on the next blogpost), ubuntu installations, data recovery from win/linux, drive resize and… many other things! Snippet for ubuntu 12.04 menu.lst 1įind - set-root /ubuntu- 12.

img from Internet )įor firmware upgrades, wierd commercial recovery software (in case i ever need that…) Recovery USB pen with ubuntu livecd (the really heavylifter here!), dos command line (just downloadable. (ex: rename hd0 to hd4, if that might be useful), compatibility with old DOS images What i use it for iso images, loading them into ram, easy change drive composition The premium functionality I’m talking about are: boot of. Yeah for those that know GRUB, it might seem an aberration, and it might as well be! It’s very handy to make multiboot devices,Įspecially usb pen drives (although it might be used as normal bootloader for your hard drive) Is a boot loader with premium functionality, designed for ease of use, and usable with FAT32 and NTFS. For those that have no idea of what is it:

One of the main issues that slows down the adoption of grub4dos is the lack of recent documentation or examples.
