Re: [gentoo-user] "loopback mount" hard-drive image created with dd?

[Mick]

On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > > On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > > Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file
> > > > > system* image.
> > > > >
> > > > > The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what
> > > > > to do with a block image complete with partition tables and boot
> > > > > records.
> > > > >
> > > > > alan
> > > >
> > > > I don't doubt what you wrote, but I've done exactly that many times
> > > > and never had a problem. Is this some kind of ntfs support issue?
> > > >
> > > > Just this morning, I ran dd to make an image of a usbstick I dearly
> > > > love... I just now mounted the image as vfat as stated above and I
> > > > have complete access to the data on it... Is the ntfs module that
> > > > different? Just curious.
> > >
> > > Do you have partitions on that memory stick?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> OK... It just got through my dense head! He has "multiple partitions" in
> his disk image, not one....
>
> What I proposed will fail in that case, but will work with "just one"
> partition in the image...
>
> It's a shame too.
>
> Cheers.

I have mounted through loopback USB stick images that I dd onto my hard drive, 
but had no partition table (like a floppy sort of thing).  I am thinking 
aloud here, could the OP chainload the NTFS image using Grub - 
notwithstanding that Vista is using a slightly different booting scheme than 
the WinXP NTLDR.exe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_Startup_Process

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Regards,
Mick