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Farewell to vFloppy and switch to GRUB, just one word, "cool"!

About half a month ago, I discovered vFloppy, integrating the virtual boot floppy into the hard drive, and it felt great. But after doing a few GHOSTs, I found that after restoring the system, the virtual floppy couldn't start repeatedly. So I started "beating the iron" online and found that many netizens said that grub_for_dos is easy to use.

But many posts are described very complicated. Fortunately, I have a little English foundation. I downloaded grub_for_dos 2006-03-03 at http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome.

The following is shared with you:

1. Copy grldr and menu.lst to the C:\ root directory, in the same directory as the Windows operating system "boot.ini" file

2. Create a "BOOT" folder in the C:\ root directory, and copy the boot.img (you can also download and make the boot image file by yourself) to this folder

3. Edit the "boot.ini" file and add C:\GRLDR="Start GRUB" at the last line


PS: Beginning at version 0.4.0, GRUB for DOS supports memdrives.
GRUB version 0.4.0 and above already supports the memdrives function, so there is no need for the memdrives.gz file.

With GRUB, there will never be a phenomenon that the virtual floppy can't start, let's GHOST to the end!

^_^

vFloppy is located by physical address, so of course it can't be used after ghosting.

I also use grub

This GRUB is the latest version and is very easy to use.

Just copy the two files grldr and menu.lst to the C:\ root directory, and edit menu.lst with Notepad to specify the path of the boot image file. It is best to also place the image file in the C:\ root directory. For example:

Write in menu.lst:

color yellow/cyan
timeout 60
default 0

title Boot from Virtual Floppy Disk
map --mem --read-only (hd0,0)/boot/boot.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
map --floppies=1
boot

title Start Windows XP Profession
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

In this example, the image file boot.img is located in the C:\boot folder. After starting GRUB, there are two startup items in this example. One is the default startup from the image file, and the other is startup from Windows XP.

Advantages of GRUB: Since the image is copied to a memory area, the image itself can be non-contiguous or even compressed.

The size of the image file depends on the memory size of the machine itself. So theoretically, this image file can be as large as the memory, such as 256M or 512M. I haven't tested this myself, just read the software usage instructions.

Remember in the summer of 2004, we discussed the issue of GRUB boot memory disk on this forum. Now when I play Windows 98, I use the map --mem command in GRldr to boot the entire 98 in memory.

What's the use of this software??? I'm a newbie!!!

Is it really that good?

Dude, the method you mentioned above isn't working. Can you explain it in more detail?

My machine has a Lenovo professional version system installed with an 815 cracked BIOS, and the partition is NTFS.

Thanks a lot

Successfully tested! Thanks to the landlord!

Learning

The color configuration of the first line in menu.lst is best changed to:
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
So that the display effect is better!

Also for:
title Start Windows XP Profession
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Actually, it means booting from the hard disk, so it is appropriate to change the title here to:
title Boot from HDD

RE: jljerry
GRUB may have poor support for the NTFS file system on partition C. I don't know this very well either. Everyone is welcome to start a discussion!

Grub is really good.

Skills Worth Learning

Ask the landlord, how to set it to display Chinese menus?