Switching from GRUB to NTLDR

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:22 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> On 1/11/06, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > With the dd step you are taking the MRB that should have GRUB on it already
> > and putting it into a file. NTLDR uses files to load the boot managers
> > rather than chainloading to a bootsector. You don't have to "reinstall" GRUB
> > anywhere. You just have to save it and put it somewhere and in some form
> > that NTLDR can use it.
> 
> Yippy!  I just learned something about Windows I didn't know.
> 
> What I would like to know is - Why do all that?  If grub is the loader
> and it can load all the other OS'es then why make NTLDR the loader?
> 
In *nix there is more than one way to do most things.  Booting is one of
those.
It is the users choice which boot loader is used and some choose the
ntldr scheme instead of grub.


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