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There is problem which has been puzzled me for long time. When the grub2 root is on 2nd disk, the stage2 is not directly bootable from grub4dos stage1, but can be chain loaded from grub4dos as a linux kernel. The same problem happens to burg as well.

It turns out the stage2 file only has the relative path from root if you use grub-install script. So all you have to do is to embed a absolute path in prefix. Here is the brief step to make a direct bootable stage2.

grub-mkimage --output=/boot/grub/core.img --prefix=(hd1,2)/boot/grub \
         biosdisk part_msdos ext2
cat /boot/grub/lnxboot.img /boot/grub/core.img > g2ldr

Now copy g2ldr to your windows’ partition. Make a grub4dos stage1 file

grubinst.exe -o -b=g2ldr g2ldr.mbr

You can find grubinst.exe from grub4dos website.

Add it to windows bootmgr with bcdedit

bcdedit /create /d Linux /application BOOTSECTOR
bcdedit /set {ID} device partition=c:
bcdedit /set {ID}  path \g2ldr.mbr
bcdedit /displayorder {ID} /addlast

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