Ubuntu 16.04 and Win 8 can't dual booting

Tue Oct 31 10:14:08 UTC 2017

Liam Proven schreef op 30-10-2017 23:07:
> On 30 October 2017 at 20:13, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:

> AFAIK Grub can only chainload an existing Windows bootloader. It can't
> do load Windows from a bare disk on its own.

I believe you are mistaken.

The ntldr command takes a pathname as parameter and thus loads something 
directly from disk.

It does not depend on a bootsector.

> The first copy must be.

Alright.

> Well, true. Always best to leave Windows at the start and load Linux 
> _after_ it.

Yeah.