grub "chainloader +1" loops to grub menu

emuub · 07-15-2007, 04:16 PM

Installed F7 and then win98

yes - i know that's the wrong way round but there were 'good-ish' reasons).

F7 worked fine after its installation.
Win98 worked fine at the end of its installation and all files could be mounted on linux

used the rescue disk to install grub
grub-install /dev/sda1
msg: /boot/grub/device/device.map says
(hd0) /dev/sda

rebooted and seleted F7 => works fine
rebooted and seleted windows => problem

after a short blank screen it redisplays the grub boot menu.

Text of grub.conf
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloder +1

deep annoyance on my part !

jschiwal · 07-15-2007, 05:10 PM

My /etc/grub.conf looks like this:

Code:

setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,4)
quit

The mbr is on /dev/hda and SuSE's root partition (/) is on /dev/hda5.

It looks like you edited grub.conf instead of the Windows stanza in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Code:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Jul 10 01:44:25 CDT 2007
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message

title openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.5
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.5-default root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 nolapic resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent showopts elevator=
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.5-default

title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.5
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.5-default root=/dev/hda5 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.5-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader (hd0,0)+1