can't boot into windows (chainloader (hda1,1)+1)

[majo]

hey guys,

I'm a bit new into linux even though I was using Red Hat before.
Now I have finally installed new SUSE 10.1 which works great, but I still need to use win xp for some graphics and video soft. I sure have multiboot system which looks good but thats not enough.

after choosing windows, I got a black screen with message chainloader (hda1,1)+1 and nothing happens, i have to hard reset the machine

thing I forgot to mention is that win xp was already installed and running before I installed SUSE on different drive. win xp is on SATA drive sda5 partition but when I have checked bootloader settings via YaST it was saying it is on sda2 partition so I've changed it with no luck to boot windows (chainloader (hda1,4)+1)

can any one help with this ?
I have searched forums almost everywhere but i could not find any help for this type of problem

thanx

[budman7]

Could you post the result of

fdisk -l

And the contents of

/boot/grub/menu.lst

[majo]

Hi thanks for response, here is the fdisk status :

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               2        3916    31447237+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda2   *        3917       14593    85763002+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5               2        3916    31447206    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdc: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1            2551        9964    59552955    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc2               1         262     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdc3   *         263        1203     7558582+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc4            1204        2550    10819777+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc5            2551        9964    59552923+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

and here is the menu.lst

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Nov 16 09:41:27 EST 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE Linux 10.1
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc3 vga=0x31a    resume=/dev/hdc2  splash=silent showopts
    initrd /boot/initrd

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

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1
    root (hd0,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
    initrd /boot/initrd

thanks a lot

[devils casper]

title Windows XP
chainloader (hd1,1)+1

in 'grub.conf' replace that code with this one....

title Windows XP
    rootnoverify (hd1,1)
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    chainloader +1

in case, it doesn't work, post the contents of /boot/grub/device.map file.





casper

[majo]

Thanks Casper very much

all is working now

in 'grub.conf' replace that code with this one....

it should be changed in menu.lst instead of grub.conf

if you have a minute, can you explain those few lines, what they do and why it was the way it was ?

much appreciate it

[devils casper]

it should be changed in menu.lst instead of grub.conf

oooops ! my mistake.. actually Fedora uses grub.conf file and i am in Fedora box right now...

Windows needs to be in Primary Disk. map is like a cheat code.

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

this code mapped second disk with first ( Primary ).





casper

[majo]

thank you Casper and all