Dual booting winxp/suse

I have a box with xp and suse installed on it and the xp portion will not boot up. I am using the grub boot loader and when i select windows all i get is the 3 commands that are running and a blinking '_'. I want to continue to use the grub or lilo boot loader if possbile. here is my Menu.lst file:


# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Aug 14 15:53:33 2004


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

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title Linux
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x31a splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hda2 showopts
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd

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title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1

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title Failsafe
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3
initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd



Here is my grub.conf file:

root (hd0,2)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,2)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit


And here is the sfdisk -ls command output:

/dev/hda: 58633344

Disk /dev/hda: 116336 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 75177- 75178- 37889271 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 75178 77225 2048 1032192 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 77226 116335 39110 19711440 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
total: 58633344 blocks


I have read the other forum posts for this problem but the solutions havent helped =(. Any help is much appreciated.

Try changing this:

title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

...to this:

title Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Håkan

Nope that didnt work =/ when i select the windows boot it now says makeactive on it along with the 2 other commands.
If it helps any i am able to see my windows partition on the / directory.

Another problem popped up =). I did the online update and now my CD rom drive randomly pops open. Anyone run into this problem and know the solution?

Maybe this post can help you:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...918#post937918

Also, look at suse website. There are issues running grub to boot a xp-suse machine.

Do you have a link to where the article is at on the suse website i couldnt find it.