Exclude drives from find output in Grub4DOS

Hi guys. For the sake of our discussion, say I have two operating systems: one installed on first fixed HDD, and one installed on my portable USB drive. I want to chainload bootmgr from the fixed drive using the find --set-root command.

For instance:

find --set-root /windows/boot/pcat/bootmgr

The above command will find my USB drive first and it will chainload to it rather than finding my fixed drive.

Is there someway to exclude my USB drive from the search? Or is there another possibility of doing what I need in a different way?

Thank you!

The usual way is to use find to look for a tag file on the disk that you want to find...

find --set-root /hdd.tag

If you have booted from a USB drive it will be hd0, so another way is to map out the USB drive by mapping a ramdrive there instead...

e.g.

map (rd) (hd0)
map --hook
find --set-root /windows/boot/pcat/bootmgr
map --unhook

P.S. A feature of the grub4dos find command is that it always look in the current root drive first (even if you specify different devices using --devices=xyz).

If you don't want it looking at the current root device first, try setting the root to something invalid...

rootnoverify (rd)
find --set-root --devices=cfh /myfile.txt

P.S.

# Ignore boot device and boot to Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8 from the internal hard disk
# This works by mapping the boot device (bd) which may have bootmgr or ntldr on it, to a virtual memory drive so that files on it are not found by the find command
title Boot to Windows from an internal hard disk
map --mem (md)+8 (bd)
map --hook
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /bootmgr || find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /ntldr
map (bd) (bd)
map --rehook
chainloader /bootmgr || chainloader /ntldr

I like the idea of mapping the (bd) to something else , but wouldn't:

map --unhook

do instead of:
 

map (bd) (bd)
map --rehook

Also, it seems to me that newish (0.4.6a) versions of grub4dos somehow do not list floppies already , but in any case:

find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd

wouldn't be "easier" as:
 

find --devices=h --set-root

Wonko 

map --unhook would undo all previous mappings (e.g. isos mapped to (0xff) or image mapped to a (fd), etc. by the user)

map --unhook would undo all previous mappings (e.g. isos mapped to (0xff) or image mapped to a (fd), etc. by the user)

I see, so if there is no mapping one can use unhook, but not if other mappings were made before .

Wonko

P.S.

# Ignore boot device and boot to Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8 from the internal hard disk
# This works by mapping the boot device (bd) which may have bootmgr or ntldr on it, to a virtual memory drive so that files on it are not found by the find command
title Boot to Windows from an internal hard disk
map --mem (md)+8 (bd)
map --hook
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /bootmgr || find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /ntldr
map (bd) (bd)
map --rehook
chainloader /bootmgr || chainloader /ntldr

Beautiful piece of code, Steve.

Thank you.