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Hi i have quite a situation here I installed my SLES10 in a SATA hdd which is the secondary disc (sda). Now the primary disc (hda) had a dual windows ...
  1. 11-15-2006 #1
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    2 discs 3 boots HELP needed

    Hi i have quite a situation here
    I installed my SLES10 in a SATA hdd which is the secondary disc (sda). Now the primary disc (hda) had a dual windows boot, xp and windows vista beta. The partitions are pretty nasty now


    /dev/hda 232.8Gb ST3250820A
    /dev/hda1 19.1Gb HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hda2 213.1Gb Extended
    /dev/hda5 213.1Gb HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda 233.7Gb Maxtor-7Y250M0
    /dev/sda1 19.7Gb Extended
    /dev/sda2 188.0Gb HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda3 26.0Gb Linux Native
    /dev/sda4 7.8Mb Linux Swap
    /dev/sda5 19.7Gb HPFS/NTFS

    I am using sda3 to boot from /boot/vmlinuz
    The problem is that the GRUB set the windows boot as only one windows boot in hda1 and it doesnt load windows at all. I get the message 'chainloader (hda0, 0) + 1'
    I really need to run windows PLEASE HELP
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    post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf file.





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    Ok SLES has a recovery tool for the old MBR. So I have the old windows dual boot option but the GRUB dissapeared and cant boot Linux. I have a clue, Do I boot from the DVD and select install / upgrade / no package at all / next next ??

    I am planning to make a boot diskette just to use it when I use Linux, and recover the old windows MBR again
    What do you think?

    I will post the /boot/grub/grub.conf tonight
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    Do I boot from the DVD and select install / upgrade / no package at all / next next ??
    yes !
    I am planning to make a boot diskette just to use it when I use Linux, and recover the old windows MBR again
    What do you think?
    can you plug-in SATA disk as primary?
    if yes, plug-in it as Primary Master and install GRUB in its MBR. add entries for Windows in grub.conf file manually.
    check this link. its for XP+SuSe and it works for triple boot too....
    GRUB will give you two choices, Linux and Windows and Windows choice will invoke Windows boot loader.




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    Problem solved

    Hi again
    I had to do it the tough way, I installed Linux again but this time instead of using GRUB, which still gave me the same problem, I used LILO which made the whole thing as simple as it should be
    Thanx anyway
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