[solved] Can grub2-efi chainload a bios target?

Hi,
my laptop runs arch in efi-mode which works fine for me for everyday use. However (its summer break) I would like to install windows for some gaming.
Since my internal hard drive is occupied by linux and data, I tried to install to an external hard drive, following this guide. To make matters worse, since there is no windows on my laptop, I did this using virtual box, which does not allow booting windows in uefi mode, so I'm stuck with a bios windows install on my external hard drive that I would like to chainload from grub2-efi. Is this possible, and if yes, how?
I tried the commands from the wiki page:
menuentry "Windows" {
set root=(hd1,1)
chainloader --force +1
but this gives me an error, saying that the efi path is invalid (not a big surprise)
Last edited by Mox (2013-08-05 17:33:24)

Okay, so is the windows installation on bare-metal or not? You say you did this via virtualbox, but that would imply that there is no reason to have to chainload from grub to bios mode. So I am a bit confused here. (And by bare-metal, I just mean not in a virtual machine image, I know that it is on an external drive at least).
I have not come across any documentation that suggests that this is a possibility from grub2-efi. That doesn't mean that there is no way to do this, but I do not think that there is a legitimate (read "supported") way to do this. rEFInd, Rod Smith's fork of rEFIt, is supposedly able to handle the bios boot sector, but it is not totally reliable unless you are using a Mac, for which this functionality was actually designed.
I have seen tutorials about how to convert windows from bios to UEFI or vice versa though. So that may be an option.
On my system, I can set the machine to use both UEFI and bios modes at the same time. It then also gives me a choice of which should be the preferred method in the event that both methods are available. So if I were to have this setup, where Linux (or whatever) is configured to boot with UEFI, and another operating system (not just limited to windows) is configured to use bios mode, then I could quite easily make both available. What I would need to do is to configure the system to use my UEFI bootloader using a firmware entry. That is it would need a direct nvram entry created using something like efibootmgr. Then I would set the bios to use 'both" (UEFI and legacy bios) and give preference to legacy bios. That way I could select that created entry to boot the UEFI thing (in your case grub-efi), while also having the option of booting from the disk itself to get to the bios booting OS.
But unfortunately, every firmware is different, and I have heard of many machines that don't offer such functioanlity. This method would also require that I would have to potentially deal with two boot managers. So I could hold (on my machine) F12 and select the windows disk, or let it boot the default UEFI entry and get grub (or gummiboot in my case).

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I tried to add this t-code but could not find this t-code in SAP TM system.
How can we add the tcode of target system into Source System.?
I tries to import the role of target system but that does not work.
Please help!
Regards,
Saurabh

Hi Saurabh,
Logically there is no need to add a tcode of the target system in the source system.
If you have right roles in the system then system should allow you to add tcode in the OBN target simply by going to PFCG roles and using add transaction feature.
To make sure it works properly you have to check the Method & Parameter assignment to the newly added tcode.
Thanks & Regards,
Tarun Kumar

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