So that I have to use BOOT (the FAT32) partition smaller than 32GB? That may be reason it didnot offer me g4d boot menu at all.
My initial layout Boot/System/Data was 40 / 16 / 8. Even when I had selected USB storage with higher prio than internal HD it jumped directly to external Windows Bootmgr-based menu and offered me only systems which I've added as .WIM image (all ISOs registered via menu.lst, however grub4dos seems never been invoked). If I choosen UEFI USB Device from Windows 8.1 boot menu, it just restarts.
Only external system that is bootable is Paragon Backup Capsule selected from main BCD
BTW. Mark partition as active/inactive option is not available for partitions on GPT drive. Is that problem?
Edited by Franz Ferdinand II., 24 April 2014 - 09:29 AM.
Grub4dos Menu can only be used on UEFI computer when you boot in BIOS mode
If you have UEFI firmware then for booting Grub4dos from USB you need to modify BIOS settings.
So in simple, there's not yet a way to create multiboot partition on GPT drive, right?
If that conclusion is true, is that possible create more smaller partitions on GPT drive, one bootable WinPE-based environment per partition, and modify main BCD accordingly?
How should added BCD entry look like? (ie. how to identify particular partitions correctly)
I must conratulate you and the team reoot.pro on the awsome tools. However today when I tried to download the UEFI_Multi.exe file the download was interrupted with an error message:
Gateway Anti-Virus Alert
This request is blocked by the Firewall Gateway Anti-Virus
Service. Name: Ruskill.QCE (Trojan)
Is there any other source available from where I can dowload this file??
I have some questions...
I've been looking for a solution that me free from CDs, in which I can do everything with my external HD.
My only problem was with UEFI, since no Multi_boot boot in UEFI.
I wonder if I can and how to put the recovery of more than one type of Windows 8 (Windows 8 SL, 8.1 SL and 8.1 Pro for example) in UEFI mode and if I can put in BIOS Mode the Hiren's Boot, Windows 7 and XP.
At the BIOS mode, I can use it to boot another MULTI_BOOT?
Sorry for so many dumb questions and the bad english.
i'm try to combine a uefi multiboot usb of windows 7 and windows 8.1 at the same usb disk, but everytime i choose the iso file, i get an error message that says incompatible format of iso, too large for fat32.
how can i solve this limination and combined both operating systems with this tool or another tool?
i'm using winsetupfromusb that is very easy to use and created a ntfs partitions for all my iso's, and i'ts working great, but not on uefi systems.
I followed your instructions to the letter and created the USB stick together with a "8.1SE x64 WIM". On a normal BIOS everything works fine, but when I try to boot on secure UEFI I get the following message:
I followed your instructions to the letter and created the USB stick together with a "8.1SE x64 WIM". On a normal BIOS everything works fine, but when I try to boot on secure UEFI I get the following message:
"Failed to verify image with *ACCESS DENIED*"
What did I do wrong?
In my case UEFI Secure booting of 8.1SE x64 WIM from USB-stick is doing fine.
Did you use Win 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation ISO to prepare 8.1SE x64 WIM and what is the precise version nr e.g. 9600.17050 or 9600.16384 or .... ?
What you can try is to disable Secure Boot in the UEFI BIOS Settings (Boot access via press Delete or F2 or Esc or F12)
Also you might try to use F8 key to select 8.1SE x64 WIM and so use Advanced Boot Options, where you select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement.
I followed wimb's UEFI_MULTI method with success, however I had problem with Secure Boot enabled.
In wimb's method Parted Magic has to be run with Secure Boot disabled.
Also latest refind.efi=bootx64.efi is denied when Secure boot is enabled. So am I stuck with only
/efi/boot/bootx64.efi = /EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi, this means I can only boot Windows 8.x 64-bit
when Secure Boot is enabled, requiring copy from /EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi to /EFI/bootx64.efi.
Now I find a way to boot, in addition to Windows 8.x 64-bit, other non-signed or signed Linux kernels
like Parted Magic, Ubuntu 14.04..., without changing anything.
The method is taken from AltLinux.
You have to adapt the configuration files (refind.conf, elilo.conf).
It works because *.efi files have been signed by AltLinux, and thanks the trick of using ELILO to chainload
unsigned Linux kernels.
Inside /EFI/boot/ directory I have:
icons\ => from refind included with Alt Linux
refind.conf => see below
elilo.conf => see below
textmenu-message.msg => from ELILO
grubx64.efi => from AltLinux (= signed refind.efi)
elilo.efi => from AltLinux
bootx64.efi => from AltLinux
MokManager.efi => from AltLinux
general.msg => from ELILO
params.msg => from ELILO
prompt
# wait 20 seconds before booting default
timeout=200
default=Ubuntu
chooser=textmenu
message=textmenu-message.msg
###
image="/EFI/ubuntu/vmlinuz-3.13.0-43-generic"
label="Ubuntu"
description="Ubuntu 14.04"
initrd=/EFI/ubuntu/initrd.img-3.13.0-43-generic
read-only
# note: you need to change UUID to the UUID of your Linux partition
append="root=UUID=b08a3f56-9df0-4a91-b7a5-27b854f2b5d8 ro quiet splash $vt_handoff"
###
image="/pmagic/bzImage64"
label="PartedMagic"
description="Parted Magic (2014-11-19)"
initrd=/pmagic/initrd64.img
read-only
append="edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw vga=normal loglevel=9 max_loop=256 vmalloc=288MiB directory=/ keymap=fr"
To summarize, using this method, my multiboot USB hard disk has following structure:
- grub4dos in MBR
- 1 FAT32 primary partition with Easy2boot
- 1 NTFS primary partition for data, WIM and big (> 4 GB) ISO, VHD
- 1 Linux ext4 logical partition for Ubuntu 14.04
- 1 Linux swap logical partition for Linux swap
So Easy2boot still has 4th primary partition to work.
Important: the NTFS partition needs to be primary and not logical, because if logical, the VHD files will not be found in UEFI mode (no BCD entry displayed for them, while in BIOS mode there is n
hi ktp, good to see your still around! that is ALOT of useful info. it looks like exactly what is needed too for if/when I ever get UEFI system. actually, I wouldnt have even considered one until now since reading your post here!
Any chance this can be updated to make use of UEFI:NTFS? It works great as is, but it would be nice to be able to use images larger than the 4GB file limit in FAT32.
Basically it creates two partitions, an NTFS and a FAT one, the NTFS gets ignored on 32-bit systems with EFI and the FAT one contains relevant boot code to load the NTFS one and boot from it.