Wingrub windows

Open the "menu. Edit "menu. I am having a hard time finding information about this Wingrub "defrag problem" that I see talked about. What is the problem? Is it a problem for NTFS disks, if you defrag them? I see people saying to be warned of the issue, but I don't know what the issue is and if there's a way to prevent it? Perhaps layout. That doesn't work for me. I did all of that and got Grub installed and working on the MBR.

It boots Windows from there, but when trying to boot OSX which for me is on hd0,5 it says OS X itself calls it disk0s6 but it numbers partitions from 1, rather than from 0 of course. I also tried changing root hd0,5 to rootnoverify hd0,5 which I had read elsewhere, but that made no difference. Once you have grub working to boot OSX, is there some trick to not have Darwin present you with another boot partition list?

I boot to the grub menu, select OSX, and Darwin then shows me the partitions available and which one I would like to boot. You have to go into com. From there you must edit to add the following code I think. More information is in "Messing with the boot options" in the Wiki. This is the longest spanning short thread I've seen.

Posts spread from , to , to And look at who the genius was who started it. I've got an odd problem with WinGrub. I just got OS X My XP and. Multi-booting and Virtualisation. Existing user? Sign In Sign In. Remember me Not recommended on shared computers. Or sign in with one of these services Sign in with Google. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Facebook. WinGrub Setup. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Welcome to our community! Here is my scenario Join our community to see this answer!

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