Got a little diffrent dual boot prob than most

[Magg0s]

Hi all,
ok just reinstalled sled10 last night and now I cant get windows to boot from the loader. Everytime i choose windows from the loader i get the message "chainloader (hd0,0)+1" and it just sits there. i have a 80 gb serial hd with windows xp pro on it, in the system monitor prog it reads it as "/dev/sda1" for the device cat. "/windows/C under dir. cat. Also there is a 250 serial drive (formatted as ntfs) then I have a 60 gb ide drive set as a slave. So...any suggestions would be nice. I have tried several solutions but no luck. any help will be greatly appreciated!

[devils casper]

hi Magg0s !

Welcome to the LinuxForums ! post the output of 'fdisk -l' command here.





Casper

[Magg0s]

"bash: fdisk: command not found" is what i get (i am quite the noob to linux here) (i am taking a course on red hat but just started last week) btw i've only just played around with this version from novell ...

[Magg0s]

ok nevermind i got the fdisk command to work (was trying to do it in a term window) here is what it gave me


Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb2 263 1568 10490445 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 1569 7297 46018192+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9728 78140128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 484521 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 484518 244197040+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

[apoorv_khurasia]

Please post your /boot/grub/grub.conf file. (I am assuming that you are using GRUB based on what you wrote....chainloader(hd0,0) +1 etc....) I think we need to change it to (sd0,0).

[devils casper]

I think we need to change it to (sd0,0).

No. it should be hd0 because device mapping uses same naming scheme for all types of Hard disks and its hdx only.

post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst file

less /boot/grub/menu.lst

Casper

[Magg0s]

here it is ... hope this is the info you were asking for


# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Jan 14 00:47:47 EST 2007
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 Enterprise Desktop 10
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/hdb1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
chainloader (hd0,0)+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 (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd


-magg0s

[Magg0s]

im starting to think that sled10 took over my mbr of my c: drive...if thats the case the only way i know how to fix that is by using the recovery console that is on the windows cd...only problem is i don't have my windows xp pro cd...does any of this sound right???

[Juan Pablo]

Try something like this

title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

[Magg0s]

no luck ... here is what it gave me

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
savedefault

Error 15: file not found

Press any key to continue...

yea! sooooo....back to the drawing board.

-magg0s