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Windows 7 can boot either with a BIOS of off a MBR drive, or with EFI off a GPT disk. Having just converted my disk to GPT on a BIOS based system, I've been trying to figure out how to get GRUB2 to load Windows 7. I've managed to get GRUB2 to boot an EFI image (with the help of EFI DUET: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofive … p/t186440). But I was hoping there would be a more direct way. I've noticed that GRUB2 comes with "efiemu.mod" module (/boot/grub/efiemu.mod), but I'm not sure how to use it or what it does.
Can grub2 boot efi files directly?
Is there any more documentation on using grub2 modules?
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Windows 7 can boot either with a BIOS of off a MBR drive, or with EFI off a GPT disk. Having just converted my disk to GPT on a BIOS based system, I've been trying to figure out how to get GRUB2 to load Windows 7. I've managed to get GRUB2 to boot an EFI image (with the help of EFI DUET: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lofive … hp/t186440. But I was hoping there would be a more direct way. I've noticed that GRUB2 comes with "efiemu.mod" module (/boot/grub/efiemu.mod), but I'm not sure how to use it or what it does.
Can grub2 boot efi files directly?
Is there any more documentation on using grub2 modules?
Grub2 compiled for x86_64-efi (extra/grub2-efi-x86_64 package) can boot other efi fiels directly but grub2-bios cannot. Efiemu in grub2-bios is useful only to boot Mac OS X (XNU) kernel. It emulates EFI riuntime services which are required to boot Mac in BIOS systems (like Chameleon bootloader for Hackintosh).
Follow the instructions in the insanely mac forum topic to convert Windows to UEFI-GPT and then follow https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIB … 20UEFI-GPT . In GPT partitioning Windows will not booot using BIOS and no chainloading technique will work.
My new forum user/nick name is "the.ridikulus.rat" .
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