Grub4Dos and Xp booting

**aidia** · August 13, 2010

Hello, i hope you can help me, i have a problem making a multiboot cd with Grub4Dos.

I read than Grub4Dos can read directly the SETUPLDR.BIN, and i do it in this way:

title Windows Xp
chainloader /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN

and show me this:

Will boot NTLDR from drive =0xe0, partition=0xff(hidden sectors=0x0)

and then reboot.

i doing form this way too:

title Windows Xp
find /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN
map /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN (0xff) || map --mem /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN (0xff)
map --hook
chainloader (0xff)

and show me this message:

Invalid or unsupported executable format

I tried a lot of ways but nothing works, give me some clue what i missing.

**atolica** · August 13, 2010

Try EasyBoot and their forums http://www.ezbsystems.com/enindex.html

See my signature for Win7/Vista/other WinPE multiboot dvd. Doesn't fork for xp.

EasyBoot is the thing for what you need. You can find tutorials on their forum.

**aidia** · August 13, 2010

Try EasyBoot and their forums http://www.ezbsystems.com/enindex.html
See my signature for Win7/Vista/other WinPE multiboot dvd. Doesn't fork for xp.
EasyBoot is the thing for what you need. You can find tutorials on their forum.

Thanks a lot, but i really really wanna learn to do it with grub4dos.

**cdob** · August 14, 2010

title Windows Xp
chainloader /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN

That's correct as for grub4dos.

May be setupldr.bin dosn't find ntdetect.com.

File system, file case and location is importand.

How do you create the whole CD/DVD? Write some details.

**jaclaz** · August 14, 2010

Hello, i hope you can help me, i have a problem making a multiboot cd with Grub4Dos.
I read than Grub4Dos can read directly the SETUPLDR.BIN, and i do it in this way:
title Windows Xp
i doing form this way too:

[code]title Windows Xp
find /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN
map /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN (0xff) || map --mem /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN (0xff)
map --hook
chainloader (0xff)

The mapping is wrong.

You are mapping an executable to a virtual CD device.