[PLUG] Controlling grub from Windows?

Don Buchholz buchholz at easystreet.com
Fri Jan 30 13:42:01 UTC 2004


Geoff Burling wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Bill Barry wrote:
>  
>
>>Here is the short question. Is there a way 
>>to edit grub.conf from Windows?
>>    
>>
>...
>

>The longer answer is this. Grub looks for the
>grub.conf file as it starts, which (IIRC) is usually
>on one of the Linux partitions (whatever /boot is mapped to).
>If you can see the partition that the grub.conf is on
>from Windows, you can do it.
>
>Since then & now I would prefer to have as little
>to do with the internals of Windows as possible, I
>have no idea if there is a way to mount either a ext2 or
>ext3 partition from Windows -- & I tend to doubt it can
>be done.
>
Try this:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/filesystems/howto/Filesystems-HOWTO-6.html
scroll down for "Windows" or "LTOOLS".






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