hi folks... installed suse 9.2 on one hard drive, the primary one, relegated win xp to secondary drive..when i select windows from the grub boot screen i get this message:
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
chainloader +1
and the pc locks up, needing a reboot
looked at threads for similar prob with suse9.1 and xp but nothing solves this prob with 9.2
any ideas? also why can't i boot xp directly by resetting bios to boot from that disk - no matter what,it always boots grub?
cheers
lizard love
topher

Strictly speaking, nothing to do with the Suse version - other than the fact that they haven't fixed it's obviously poorly designed installer.
Windows will only boot from the primary disk (yeah I know; we'll get to that). Grub fools it via the map directive as below (watch the blanks) - suggest you also include the rootnoverifyThat should fix the immediate problem.
As for why Windows won't boot from it's own disk, sounds like you installed grub more than once, and hit the MBR of that (Windows) disk. Easy fixed - set it as primary in the BIOS, boot the XP CD, and get into recovery centre (??) and run fixmbr.
Won't affect your Linux install - if you hit the correct disk
Set the BIOS back, and off you go.

hi syg00 thanks for your reply, but lets not forget your talking to a newbie here...where exactly do i do all this code stuff? via konsole? jeez they don't teach us nuffin up here in the north!! cheers mate
topher

For some background have a look at this (found via a search here on LQ, BTW). Also check the link at the bottom for Grub - still applies to the later version(s) of Suse.
Seems they use /boot/grub/menu.lst - maybe you can use Yast to edit it, or else open a (root) console and Just like a normal full screen editor. Paste in the bits I posted earlier (should be obvious where), save it and reboot.

cheers for your help syg00 - you got me there, will look more closely in future at related articles - the answer was there, just couldn't see it...alls well etc.cheerss
topher