Grub2win Manual Multibootloader Boot Win and Linux SSD, mSD, USB

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.Install Grub2win, go online and boot on the first page of the Grub2w menu in the help above from Windows Win and Linux systems, etc. Also boots old bios mbr pcs, multiboot. Double swap or set up Linux swap file partition.
 
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If you write a coustom code with grub2win, no fear is not that difficult. first go to the partition list in g2w read out the partition you want to boot, just count from the top to your part. Sometimes it happens that you add one later then you have to count and from c: pay attention to the letters even if e is before d you have to count after d for your part d count go to coustom code and liad coustom.
It shows a ready-made boot line that you just have to add.
With Linux File Managee from Paragon you can now use the Ubuntu example, go to it and read out the boot folder.
You want to boot vmlinuz and initrd / ramfs.
You have to take this line for both where the generic is behind it and add that in g2w coustomcode after vmlinuz and initrd as well.
Example. /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.8-25-generic, that's exactly what you add to ibitrd or fs.
Now you have to enter your part in brackets at the top of hd, first is the hard drive and after the comma you enter your counted part number. Example (hd0,6)
You now have to specify this in the line under Root.
If you haven't connected anything to the PC, it is usually root = / dev / sda6.
voila, save it in the top left and in g2w. Confirm everything and set g2w as the first bootloader default. Confirm everything, green everything ok, yellow, orange are errors in g2w.
That's how I did it all.

See this, Boot coustom Code for Linux OS, in grub2win

https://www.android-x86.org/source.html
 
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You can not only boot from the USB stick in the BIOS with a Win PE, you can also create a Linux live USB stick with Rufus. If you boot it in the BIOS, you have a full-fledged Linux system and you can try it out on almost all partitions on your internal hard drive.
 
But you can also write the boot custom code yourself in grub2win. With the z64w you just need to open and fill in. If you work with Paragon Linuxfie Manager in Windows, you can use the new linux parti. open and enter the vmlinuz and initrd img path in the boot folder. Example: linux / boot / vmlinuz .... root = / dev / sda ... in one line then the next. initrd / boot / initrd. .... Should work with Mint, Mate, and Ubuntu. Z64W With root you can also enter root = UUID = (number). You can find it in partition info in Grub2Win start page. Just copy and paste. I did it that way. Then I also noticed that it is an advantage not to have connected any other memory. Also works on other Windows PCs, (GPT), formatted. I have installed it gpt formatted on a 64GB mSD card and can start all three with grub2win. Drive hd ..., gpt ... (part) Everything is in info grub2win.
 
Grub2Win Multi Bootloader, can you also start it from a gpt USB stick? How many OS systems would it have?
Can I boot normally with EFi from a USB stick? Does the Grub2win bootloader start first?

Who would need a Linux Live installation stick to start a Linux when you can start almost all s from USB?
 
I have now noticed that this B.Loader can do more. Via a WinPE I got a Windows partition that couldn't be started with the normal win bootloader even after reinstalling a new 2nd Win or WinPE. I then installed Grub2Win in the new partition Win and was able to start the second Win again!
 
Don't know, could this work? If I am a LInux user a small Win PE, or WIN to create and somehow install this GRub2Win bootloader in it, would be cool if it also existed as a portable then you can insert it into Win PE as well? A kind of emergency system and multi bootloader and, multiple systems on my SSD. It would make me partly mobile, I would only need to take the disk with me to other Win PCs. Grub2Win is displayed in the EFI Start menu.
 
Hello everyone, What I now noticed after a test. The Grub2Win can do a lot more. A few years ago I tried Linux distros. Thought I'd give it a try too. You need a USB stick at least 3.0, I work with it (64GB higher is better). I tried it first with a WinPE system, this didn't work because grub2win is not available as a portable app, but it can only be used in the PE system. Ok, so I have to install a complete Windows img on the stick with boot. Then I noticed a setting with Rufus, with this one creates a bootable Windows installation stick. So I converted the stick into the gpt format with the Mini Tool Partition Wizard, you need this so that you can start several systems from the stick. Select the USB stick above where you want to install. Load the Windows image, GPT, EFI without CSM. then you go to normal Windows installation, click on it and on Windows TO GO. click start and confirm, ok, that will take a while now. When it is done, restart the PC and give me F11 to get into the EFI start menu. There you can see two partitions from the stick UEFI, for me it was the second partition to start from the stick. Let the Windows set up. Now you have windows on the stick. Now establish a WiFi connection. Download the Grub2win. Install it on c: \, you have to because this is the root folder. The good thing is that the Win TO GO installation creates a C: partition on its own. After installing. Set the Grub2Win to Start Default Bootloader. Check everything again. Now restart the PC and go to the EFi BIos menu, now deactivate all boot managers and put grub2win first.
Then you put the boot partition of Win to go in the second place and the other EFI partition from the stick in the next place, everything else you can deactivate. You can then also do this on other EFI PCs. Now start and it should automatically boot and display the Grub2win bootloader from the stick. Now you can change partitions with the Minitool Partition Wizard, create them. reduce the Windows part (for me) to 34 GB, and create two new partitions, You can now install Linux system or Android-x86 on it. The larger the stick or SSD or mSD, the more partitions you can create and install systems. The setup of starting systems can be found in the grub2win manual. So that you can now also use this on other EFI PCs, boot again via the EFi start menu from the stick, with me the second partition, load WIn TO GO and simply reload the boot loader (you don't need to reinstall it). This creates a new entry in the EFI start menu. Put it back first in EFI BIos and you can reboot. If you do not reset the BIOS, this entry remains in the EFI start menu. Remember you can also start this in a virtual machine. If you want to permanently install it on your computer, the kloon function of MInitool PW will help, make sure that there is enough space internally on the writable medium SSD. What would be cool if you could convert from vhd or windows img? Is the?

Small tip for Win TO GO installation, switch to system control, power option to high performance, otherwise it can come to problems with the power supply from the USB drive.
 
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Since you can install all OS virtually, you can put them together in the virtual environment. With Grub2win you can also work in the virtual environment. Then you can simply boot into the VM in the OS without always having to restart or switch off the VM. If you still partition in the VM yourself? You only need a large partition as the main partition for the first installation, which you then subdivide in the VM-OS. If I then simply copy and convert the partition, I can make everything usable for other PCs ? This is more than a WINPE or recovery system or repair disk. Please be careful, have noticed that with SSd and msd if up to the last GB is described this only works badly or not at all, a protected small partition would be invisible would be correct? A message that There is still free memory but it cannot be written to? Don't feel like throwing away the cards or SSD, even though I've only used them twice.
 
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