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Here we will used the following concentions:
- USB drive mapped to: /dev/sdb
- Windows 7 or 8 ISO – win7.iso
- Running linux with grub2 (I’m running Fedora 20 right now)
- parted
- ntfs-3g
1| By using parted we must make the following modifications on /dev/sdb
- Make MSDOS label:
- mklabel msdos
- Set boot flag
- set boot
- Create primary partition
- mkpart ….
2| Format the newly created partition with NTFS filesystem
mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdb1
3| Mount the USB stick , Mount the Windows image and copy the files
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb mount win7.iso /mnt/win7 cp -rf /mnt/win7/* /mnt/usb/ sync
4| Install GRUB2 and create grub2 config file
Install grub2 with the following command:
grub2-install --no-floppy --force --boot-directory=/mnt/usb/boot /dev/sdb
Write down the UUID of /dev/sdb1 partition
blkid | grep /dev/sdb1
You need to copy the ID which looks like this:
/dev/sdb1: UUID=”18680CF017449E47“ TYPE=”ntfs” PARTUUID=”000968f1-01″
Create grub2 config file on the usb
vim /mnt/usb/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
menuentry "Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
insmod ntldr
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 18680CF017449E47 # This is the EUID of the usb disk
ntldr /bootmgr
}
Hi,
Your procedure is perfect and works.
So, a big thank you to you ;-)
Just one thing :
Today due to difference in versions = grub-install instead grub2-install