Cannot find grldr

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
I have grub4dos installed on my usb drive. The drive is formatted with ntfs5 
and it boots into an ISO located on the ntfs5 partition.

Everything works fine on all computers with EIDE drivers i have. 

But on computers with SATA drives i get the message "cannot find grldr" (see 
below)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Try (hd0,0): NTFS5: 2
Try (hd0,1): invalid or null
Try (hd0,2): invalid or null
Try (hd0,3): invalid or null
Try (hd1,0): NTFS5: No grldr
Try (hd1,1): NTFS5: No grldr
Try (hd1,2): invalid or null
Try (hd1,3): invalid or null
Cannot find grldr

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

grub4dos-0.4.5b-2011-07-24

Please provide any additional information below.

The usb-drive contains only one primary, active partition.

menu.lst:
timeout 0
title ISO on HDD
find --set-root /microcore-current.iso
map --mem /microcore-current.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

What does "NTFS: 2" mean?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jochen.d...@schulergroup.com on 25 Jul 2011 at 8:42

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> What does "NTFS: 2" mean?

It means "Error 2 occurred while trying to load GRLDR on this partition/volume".

> I have grub4dos installed on my usb drive....

A lot of BIOSes have problems on USB booting. You seem to have proved that your 
"SATA" machine(its mother-board BIOS) has such problems. It is the mother-board 
who (happen to have)caused this issue(the "Error 2" failure).

Unluckily there is no "good" solution at this moment. As a workaround, you may 
use other boot loaders(such as fbinst, DOS, NTLDR, bootmgr, syslinux, etc) for 
initial boot and load(or run) grub4dos afterwards. Fbinst is highly recommended 
for the beginning/first boot.

Original comment by tinyb...@gmail.com on 26 Jul 2011 at 11:46

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