GRUB Error

[ctid]

Hey

I installed openSUSE on my desktop today and it installed GRUB. Now I can't book into Windows. When I choose it in the list, the screen just shows the following:

rootnoverify (hd1,3)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1

Both openSUSE and XP are installed on the same harddrive, on different partitions. My windows share shows up in openSUSE as /sda5.

How can I fix this to get XP to boot? From what I've read on the Internet, it's a configuration problem with GRUB. I don't know what to change grub.conf to though.

Thanks

[directhex]

i don't like the look of that config at all. can you boot into linux, and paste the content of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file?

I suspect it's something as simple as changing references from hd1 to hd0 (if it were hd1, then it would be sdb5 not sda5), but best to be sure, yeah?

[ctid]

Here you go:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Dec  3 23:04:38 GMT 2007
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd1,3)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE
    root (hd1,3)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-31-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxt                                                                                                       or_6V160E0_V393K5VG_V393K5VG-part4 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda3 splash=silent show                                                                                                       opts
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.5-31-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd1,3)
    chainloader (hd1,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE
    root (hd1,3)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-31-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxt                                                                                                       or_6V160E0_V393K5VG_V393K5VG-part4 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=of                                                                                                       f noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.5-31-default

Thanks

[directhex]

well, I find the use of hd1 bizarre, but it appears to work for you.

at a glance, I think changing the rootnoverify line from (hd1,3) to (hd1,4) should suffice. but the layout of the file is a little different to mine

[ctid]

Hey

I changed it to (hd1,4), but I get the same error as before. Now it says:

rootnoverify (hd1,4)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1

Any ideas?

Thanks

[SiM]

try rootnoverify (hd1,2)?
(thats my guess)

[directhex]

well, it's definitely non-standard. it's the "chainloader" bit that looks especially funny to me. your Windows install is definitely on /dev/sda5? (i.e. you don't have multiple windows partitions)?

okay, try replacing your entire "title windows" section with the following:
title Windows
root (hd1,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

[ctid]

hex, I tried that and got the following:

root (hd1,4)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
savedefault
makeactive

Error 12: Invalid device requested

Press any key to continue. . .

When I press a key, it goes back to GRUB, but with a commandline style gui, not the normal openSUSE coloured one.

Thanks for your help on this. I've no idea why it's doing this.

[directhex]

we need to clear up this partitions issue once & for all. can you open a terminal, run "su" to switch to the root user, then give me the output from "fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sdb"?

[ctid]

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf8e0f8e0

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           2       15882   127564101    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           16903       19451    20474842+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3           15883       16011     1036192+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4           16012       16902     7156957+  83  Linux
/dev/sda5           16903       19451    20474811    7  HPFS/NTFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6dfde6ec

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       24321   195358401   42  SFS

Thanks

[directhex]

you have *TWO* NTFS partitions? i didn't know that. which one is windows installed on?

and, for reference, your partition table looks really messed up. it ought to be possible to get it booting, but it's definitely "wrong" in the technical sense. and god knows what's going on with your second hard disk

[ctid]

Windows is on
/dev/sda5 16903 19451 20474811 7 HPFS/NTFS

[directhex]

can you paste the content of /boot/grub/device.map ? i'm discussing it with an associate, trying to track down the issue

[ctid]

(hd1) /dev/sda
(hd0) /dev/sdb

Thanks

[directhex]

and to make sure i'm reading this output correctly:

you have a linux partition of about 7 gig, a linux swap partition of about 1 gig, a windows partition (with windows on it, probably d of 20 gig, and another windows partition (probably c of about 127 gig?

[ctid]

yeah

the 20gb windows partition showed up in windows as K

the 127gb partition im not bothered about booting. i should really get round to deleting it, but moving all my files off of there would be a pita.

its the 20gb partition I need to boot.

Thanks