Problem booting XP raw disk.

[kevo]

I'm trying to boot a physical XP partition from within Windows 7.

XP is the first partition on the drive, W7 the second and then there are a couple of Linux OSs after that. (I can boot the physical Linux OSs just fine from within VB)

After managing to over come some Grub errors I managed to get the windows chainloader up where I can select between W7 and XP (I know the dangers of allowing whole drive access, but I couldnt even get this far when just creating the image using the -partitions option)

Trying all sorts of ways to get it to boot, I've currently lost my Grub menu but thats not a bit problem, I can sort that after.

The problem I'm having is when I select XP from the bootmenu I get a black screen, with a grey progress bar at the bottom. The progress bar fills and it just stays like that and gets no further.

I'm currently trying EasyBCD with the neogrub, which loads a script to search the drive for the ntldr and boot using that. It finds it but I get the same black/grey screen?!



any ideas?

cheers.

[Sasquatch]

With the -partitions option, you have to provide your own MBR so the system can boot. You might be facing the same problem with the whole disk. See the sticky in Windows Guest, "Use XP both native and VM" for more information.