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I originally always used Lao Maotao's WINPE to make a USB flash drive bootable disk. Because it couldn't boot on a Lenovo 965 motherboard notebook, I wanted to upgrade the "MTLDR" file (which is the GRUB DOS 4.3 version from August) to the version from December 25th. I downloaded it online, put the GRLDR file in the CHINESE directory onto the USB flash drive, and used ULTRAEDIT to open GRLDR and changed it to MTLDR, and imported the menu exported from the original "MTLDR". When booting from the USB flash drive, the screen correctly guided to the menu interface, but the Chinese became garbled, and after selecting the item, it didn't boot, meaning it couldn't find the file to boot. Pressing any key returns to the main menu. It seems that the command to set the USB flash drive as the root directory is missing.

The following is the content of the exported MENU.LST (I added the FIND command in the third item but it didn't work)

default 0
timeout 5
fontfile /minipe/muifont.gz
splashimage /minipe/bj2008.xpm.gz

title Boot WinPE Mini Maintenance System
chainloader /minipe/ldrxpe

title Run Efficiency Source Hard Disk Detection
map --mem /img/xly.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)

title Boot from First Partition of First Hard Disk
commandline

title Boot Microsoft Memory Detection
map --mem /img/memory.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)

title Boot GHOSt V11 Backup
map --mem /img/dos.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)

title Restart Computer
reboot

title Shutdown Computer
halt

Please help the experts to explain the reason.
[ Last edited by onemoney on 2008-2-4 at 02:14 PM ]

Is your USB drive HDD or FD

title Boot WinPE Mini Maintenance System
find --set-root /minipe/ldrxpe
chainloader /minipe/ldrxpe

title Boot WinPE Mini Maintenance System
chainloader (fd0)/minipe/ldrxpe

See if this works.

My USB flash drive is HDD type, thanks, I'll try it

Have the problem been solved? What kind of error occurred? You should always provide an account of it.

I tried it, but it didn't work. It's still the same old situation, error 15: file not found, press any key to continue

I added a line of root (hd1,0) in the third line of the menu. The menu is still garbled, but the options can run normally. I selected to enter the GRUB command line mode, and running find --set-root /boot.ini shows it's HD1, and running find --set-root /mtldr shows disk read error.

I can normally display the partition information of the two partitions of the computer hard disk with geometry (hd1), but displaying with geometry (hd0) shows disk read error.

Why is it so difficult to figure this out?

[ Last edited by onemoney on 2008-2-4 at 02:17 PM ]

Wasted a whole day again, tested many things, and found that it might be a version compatibility issue. The version from 12-09 is okay, but the ones after 12-25 are still the same old problem.