Grub and dual booting

[kewldude2007]

I am having trouble using grub. I had window XP installed on my computer first then i installed grub to dual boot.

I have linux and windows Xp installed on my first harddrive and i have a 2nd harddrive installed with just WIndows XP from my old computer.

Everytime i boot i get the menu and stuff but when i selected the WIndows XP from either harddrive it changes from the menu to a black screen with: " chainloader (hd0,1)+1" on the top and nothing else happens. The only thing on the menu that works is Suse.

I am running suse linux 10.1


Here is my menu.lst:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jul 5 23:42:51 EDT 2007

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 10
gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message

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title SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###

title Emachine XP
chainloader (hd0,1)+1



###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###

title HP XP
chainloader (hd1,1)+1


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title Floppy
chainloader (fd0)+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/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd


Here is my etc/grub.conf:

setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,2) (hd0,2)
quit


Can someone help me resolve my problem?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !!

open /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add this

title Windows XP 1
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

title Windows XP 2
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    chainloader +1

save file and reboot.
in case, any OS doesn't boot up, execute 'fdisk -l' command and post output here.

[kewldude2007]

when i clicked on the window XP 1 i get a screen displaying this:

Booting 'Window Xp1'

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format


when i clicked on the window xp 2 nothing happens. I just return to the same screen.

[devils casper]

post the output of fdisk -l command and contents of /boot/grub/device.map file.

[kewldude2007]

idk what the "f disk-1 is" but here is the device.map:

(hd1) /dev/hdb
(fd1) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda

[devils casper]

open Terminal and type this

fdisk -l

-l -- its small L. you must be logged in as root to execute fdisk command.

[kewldude2007]

ah ok here is what it says:

Disk /dev/hda 80gb

Device boot Start End System
/dev/hda1 1 1515 linux swap / solaris
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/hda2 40636 155040 w95 ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/hd3 * 1515 17309 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/hd4 40636 155040 Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/hd5 40636 155040 HPFS/NTFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hdb 60gb

Device Boot Start End System
/dev/hdb1 1 677 W95 Fat32
/dev/hdb2 678 7752 HPFS/NTFS



I skipped some of the stuff that showed and sry i am a slow typer

[devils casper]

is Windows installed in /dev/hda5 partition?
edit this part in menu.lst file

title Windows XP 1
    rootnoverify (hd0,4)
    chainloader +1

title Windows XP 2
    rootnoverify (hd1,1)
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    chainloader +1

save file and reboot.

[kewldude2007]

Ok...The Windows 1 still does not work but the windows 2 does. The windows 1 still does the same thing. YOu select it and it changes screens to a screen similar to the terminal and says: (hd 0,4) chainloader+1

I believe XP is loaded on partition 5

[devils casper]

I had window XP installed on my computer first then i installed grub to dual boot.

if you had installed Linux after Windows, how did you create partitions for Linux before Windows Partition? are you sure that Windows is installed in /dev/hda5 only? is it possible that you have deleted Windows OS partition during Linux Installation?

Boot Up Second Windows and check the contents of first harddisk's driver OR mount /dev/hda5 partition in SuSe and check what is in it.

mkdir /media/hda5
mount   -t  ntfs   /dev/hda5   /media/hda5  -o  defaults,umask=0

check the contents of /media/hda5 folder.