Chainloader

[skates]

Hi,
I'm a first-time Linux user and, suprise surprise, run into trouble at the first hurdle! I have 3 SATA drives in my PC. The first two had Windows XP and Vista. I introduced a third drive to install Suse Linux 10.1.

The GRUB loads fine, but when I select Windows XP I get a black screen that states" Chainloader hd(0,1)+1 with a flashing cursor.

Please can anyone help, as I my backup plan is to download Knoppix, retrieve all my files from Windows drives and then blow them all away. Don't really want to as I really wanted to use Linux!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Vergil83]

try posting your

/boot/grub/menu.lst

[skates]

Here it is:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
root (hd2,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc5 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sdc1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1### title Windows XP
chainloader (hd0,2)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2### title Windows Vista Beta
chainloader (hd1,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy
chainloader (fd0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
root (hd2,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc5 vga=normal showpts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

[skates]

I have also run df:

Filesystem Mounted on
/dev/sdc5 /
udev /dev
/dev/sdc6 /home
/dev/sda2 /windows/C
/dev/sdb1 /windows/D
/dev/sdb2 /windows/E

[Vergil83]

Edit the file so the windows parts look like this

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1### 
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title Windows Vista Beta
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

[skates]

I did as you instructed, and I get the following statements with flashing cursor:

When I select Windows XP, I get:
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

When I select Windows Vista, I get:
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
chainloader (hd1,0)+1
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

To be honest, I am not fussed about whether I can get Vista to boot; just need XP to boot.

[skates]

Got it working

Thank you very much for your help!