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[EB1000]

Hello

I've created an image of my windows XP primary partition using using "Selfimage". I now have a 2 GB myxp.img file. Before doing that I have installed Firadisk driver on the xp system. So the myxp.img is a bootable image that supports RAMDISK..

I want to burn this myxp.img on a blank DVDR and make this DVD a bootable dvd using grub4dos and load the myxp.img image into RAM using grub4dos. I have a bootable floppy image with grub4dos (grub.ima) that has 2 files in it: GRLDR and MENU.LST. I used UltraISO and edited the MENU.LST as follows:

map --mem (cd0)/myxp.img (hd0)
map --hook
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)/ntldr

I used Nero to create a bootable DVDR and used the grub.ima with the modified menu.lst above as boot image for nero and placed myxp.img on the DVDr root.

I booted my machine using thus DVDR but got the following error from grub4dos:

"Error 23: error while parsing number"

What am I missing here?

According to the grub4dos tutorial my menu.lst is correct, or isn't it?

First line mapping myxp.img from first cdrom device (i only have one).
Then map-hook (whatever that means)
then setting root as first hard drive and first active partition (this is where i suspect that causing the error, maybe I should hide my physical hd0.0 partition? This is my physical C hard drive.. I'm a newbie to rgub4dos, so I'm not sure)

last line chainloads to ntldr that exists inside myxp.img...

Please help

Thanks

[Icecube]

Enter the commands on the grub4dos command line directy (press 'c').
This allows you to determine which command resulted in the error message.