This article describes how to configure Windows to boot from a hard disk that is marked in the GPT partition table on a computer with classic BIOS (non-UEFI) or in the Legacy BIOS mode. The Windows operating system can not boot from GPT disks on old BIOS systems. To work around this limitation, we will move the Windows bootloader (BCD) to a separate small USB flash drive (or HDD drive) with the MBR partition table. This flash drive will only be used to start the Windows bootloader, which then must transfer control to the main Windows image located on the disk with GPT partition table. The instruction is universal and should work both in Windows 7 and Windows 10 and in any other supported x86 and x64 Windows editions.
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Contents: Advantages GPT over MBR
Booting Windows from a GPT disk
Installing Windows on a GPT disk on a BIOS PC
Gptgen: Converting MBR to GPT without Deleting Partitions
Moving the Windows Bootloader to the USB Flash Drive
You also need to understand that every time you turn on / reboot your device, your USB flash drive with the MBR table and the bootloader on it must be plugged into the computer, otherwise Windows will simply not boot.
I have completed this successfully on a LSI raid0 with win7 x64. I am now attempting to work out a rock solid process wherein I can BACKUP and RESTORE via disk image the contents of these large 4TB GPT disks using disk imaging softwares. Has anyone successfully worked out a process for doing solid Backups and Restores of data on these GPT drives running on BIOS only booted systems??
First thing first, you need to repair your WIn7 bootloader, and you can visit this page to learn how to do this. Write down on a piece of paper the required commands for fixing both boot and mbr. You'll be using those codes after getting to the Command Prompt screen.
The LoaderAndLayerInterface document in the loader folder in this repository is a specification that describes both how ICDs and layers should be properly packaged, and how developers can point to ICDs and layers within their builds.
Before building on Windows, you may want to modify the customize section in loader/loader.rc to so as to set the version numbers and build description for your build. Doing so will set the information displayed for the Properties->Details tab of the loader vulkan-1.dll file that is built.
To run Vulkan programs you must tell the icd loader where to find the libraries. This is described in a LoaderAndLayerInterface document in the loader folder in this repository. This specification describes both how ICDs and layers should be properly packaged, and how developers can point to ICDs and layers within their builds.
In this section of the Handbook a delineation has been made between emerging the boot loader's package and installing a boot loader to a system disk. Here the term emerge will be used to ask Portage to make the software package available to the system. The term install will signify the boot loader copying files or physically modifying appropriate sections of the system's disk drive in order to render the boot loader activated and ready to operate on the next power cycle.
LILO, the LInuxLOader, is the tried and true workhorse of Linux boot loaders. However, it lacks features when compared to GRUB. LILO is still used because, on some systems, GRUB does not work and LILO does. Of course, it is also used because some people know LILO and want to stick with it. Either way, Gentoo supports both bootloaders.
On UEFI based systems, the UEFI firmware on the system (in other words the primary bootloader), can be directly manipulated to look for UEFI boot entries. Such systems do not need to have additional (also known as secondary) bootloaders like GRUB in order to help boot the system. With that being said, the reason EFI-based bootloaders such as GRUB exist is to extend the functionality of UEFI systems during the boot process. Using efibootmgr is really for those who desire to take a minimalist (although more rigid) approach to booting their system; using GRUB (see above) is easier for the majority of users because it offers a flexible approach when booting UEFI systems.
Remember sys-boot/efibootmgr application is not a bootloader; it is a tool to interact with the UEFI firmware and update its settings, so that the Linux kernel that was previously installed can be booted with additional options (if necessary), or to allow multiple boot entries. This interaction is done through the EFI variables (hence the need for kernel support of EFI vars).
Syslinux is yet another bootloader alternative for the x86 architecture. It supports MBR and, as of version 6.00, it supports EFI boot. PXE (network) boot and lesser-known options are also supported. Although Syslinux is a popular bootloader for many it is unsupported by the Handbook. Readers can find information on emerging and then installing this bootloader in the Syslinux article.
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Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work. . This package provides the binary loader for 32-bit Windows applications.
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work. . This package provides the binary loader for 64-bit Windows applications.
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work. . This package provides the prelinked loader for 64-bit Windows applications.
Extra information: this is a new Asus UX32V "ultrabook". It has a 24GB SSD built on and a 0.5TB HD. I left the OEM windows 7 installation intact on the HD and installed Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit on the SSD. Grub is booting ubuntu fine but it won't boot windows 7 ("invalid efi path"); and at some point in screwing around I seem to have killed the windows boot-loader as well as it won't do anything except bring you back to the computer's setup utility. From what I read Boot-Repair is the appropriate tool to solve the problem but I can't do much since it doesn't appear to be working. Also during an earlier phase of this setup (when I was trying, incorrectly, to use ubuntu 32-bit and it wouldn't boot at all) I tried Boot-Repair when booting off the same live disk and it worked normally. 2ff7e9595c
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