I had a similar issue but found a nice clean fix. I did a p2v on my windows partition, dropping the output on my home file server. Once it was done I wiped it and put Kubuntu on my laptop (thinking I should have done encrypted homedir). Copy the vmware p2v output back to the laptop and use vmware-player to run my windows image. The only real problem was I had to go into the vmware vmx file and change my root drive from ide to scsi since the source was sata. Brought it right up and all is well . No dual boot, I just run vmwware-player full screen on desktop 12. <div>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Dan Babb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cerberus@dividebyfail.org" target="_blank">cerberus@dividebyfail.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So, at work I'm forced to use Windows, and I'd like to actually move to a Linux platform and I just can't jump overnight it's a process. I'm curious if anyone has any experience working with truecrypt and dual booting windows and the whole chainloader process. I've found a few "guides" on the web but nothing that sounds any better than tossing the dice and they are all dependent on grub2. I personally have a pretty hefty dislike of grub2 (love grub-legacy) so I've switched to syslinux and I just can't find anything about doing a chainloader that way.<br>
<br>Anyone have any thoughts on this?<br>Windows is 7 - Linux is Archlinux<br><br>The idea again being to phase Windows out and move to a fully linux platform<br>
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