Windows XP doesn't load with Grub (Suse 9.2)

AngryLlama · 12-02-2004, 09:48 PM

I looked at the drive's geometry in the bios and changed it from Auto to CHS. The geometry stayed the same, so I am assuming it was already set to CHS. CHS behaved the same as Auto. So I changed it to Large. It didn't work, so I set it to LBA and it still wont work. But Linux works under LBA and CHS. Why must Windows be so picky?
Thanks

linus24 · 12-02-2004, 09:56 PM

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Mine is set to "user" which I guess you can call CHS.

But in addition to that I had another option in the BIOS that allowed me to ENABLE or DISABLE LBA.

Actually, after I wrote all that before I rebooted my computer and re-enabled the lba setting...Windows wouldn't boot.

Changed it back and it booted fine.

I don't want to tell you to do something and have something bad happen...so I do it here first since I don't worry what happens.
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AngryLlama · 12-02-2004, 10:04 PM

I actually edited my post slightly since you posted. I think we posted at the same time. Anyways, I am running it under LBA now, but I was using CHS before, I'll probably set it back to CHS when I reboot next. I don't see an actual option anywhere for actually enabling/disabling LBA. There is the Access mode setting and I can change it between LBA and other options, this is on a per disk basis.