GRUB menu.lst (chainloader) - help needed

can anyone help me understand the disk notation in GRUB?

My situation:
3 disks
1 IDE 120GB NTFS for Data (2 partition -1 logical) No OS
1 SATA (1st drive) 120GB (2 partitions) 1st has XP
1 SATA (2nd drive) 80GB GRUB and SUSE 10

When I set 1st boot priority in BIOS to SATA it boots to XP, however, if remove all boot priorities GRUB loads and I can select SUSE and the world is good. However, if I try to select XP from GRUB I get ntdlr missing type errors.

here is a section of my menu.lst


color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd2,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/sdb1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title WindowSUX
chainloader (hd1,1)+1

title Windows1
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

and some other info

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Boot video device is 0000:02:00.0
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: ATAPI 79X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-byte hdwr sectors (122942 MB)
SCSI device sdb: 156312576 512-byte hdwr sectors (80032 MB)
SCSI device sdb: 156312576 512-byte hdwr sectors (80032 MB)
ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID received outside of bus reset sequence

much obliged if anyone could help.

If you look in the tutorials section of these forums you'll find a great little Grub tutorial written by Nerderello. It should sort you out. ;)

Which partition is your XP on?

Primary Master=hda1 or hd0,0
Primary slave=hdb1 or hd1,0
Secondary Master=hdc1 or hd2,0
Secondary slave=hdd1 or hd3,0

All of those are the first partitions on that drive.

XP is on my first SATA on the first partition = hd0,0?
SUSE is on my second SATA with GRUB = hd2,0?

not sure about the notation yet thats why I put ? (nube)

when I use the following I get NTLDR missing error

title Windows1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

The syntax looks correct.
When I went to check my entry fo XP to verify that yours was correct.
This is what mine looks like.

Code:

---

title Windows
    chainloader (hd0,0)+1

---

I found an example in the grub documentation.

Code:

---

title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu
    root        (hd0,0)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1

---

you could try either one.

I have tried both. Either way I get missing NTLDR

does this info help? fdisk -l reveals

NO OS Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2197 17647371 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2198 14946 102406342+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

XP Disk /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1147 9213246 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1148 14945 110832435 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1148 14945 110832403+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80032038912 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9730 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 129 1036161 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 * 130 9730 77120032+ 83 Linux

Have you tried

hd1,0 :?:

Yes and many others out of desperation and lack of knowledge. Its driving me nuts.

It is possible then that ntldr isn't there for grub to point at.
Solution=Boot with XP disk, when you get to the prompt, select "R" for repair, when you get to the command prompt, type "fixmbr".
That will replace ntldr.
Now you will have to reinstall grub.
Boot with the Suse disc in, when you get to the installation prompt, there should be an option to let you rescue the current installation of Suse.
Select the repair option, select to just repair grub.
You should be good to go.

I don't know if this applies to you but i had to hide and map my two harddisks.
Here's what i have in my grub-windows entry to get it to load windows xp:
(as root):
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
unhide (hd1,0)
hide (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive