Ubuntu 16.04 and Win 8 can't dual booting

[Liam Proven]

On 31 October 2017 at 11:14, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Liam Proven schreef op 30-10-2017 23:07:
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>> On 30 October 2017 at 20:13, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
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>> AFAIK Grub can only chainload an existing Windows bootloader. It can't
>> do load Windows from a bare disk on its own.
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> I believe you are mistaken.
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> The ntldr command takes a pathname as parameter and thus loads something
> directly from disk.

And you know what it loads?

The NT Bootloader. Because that's right there in the name, "NTLDR".
"NT LOADER" with the vowels left out to keep it under 8.3 characters,
needed to run on NT 3.1 because they hadn't invented VFAT or FAT32
yet.

It chainloads the bootloader, as I said.

> It does not depend on a bootsector.

It bypasses the boot sector, because GRUB replaces the boot sector.

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