Hey!
So I will say that my name is Jeremy, and I am new to Linux, and excited to learn lot's of new things. My friend is a Linux developer, who writes in like 21 different languages or something, and uses nothing but Linux, so it was him that kinda got me started on this stuff.
Anyhow,
I have 3 partitions, 1 drive, and I will start in the order of my partitions here:
1. Linux Swap - Primary
2. Linux ReiserFS (SuSE 10.0) - Primary
3. Windows XP Professional - Logical
When I installed Linux, it did not add a boot entry for my Windows partition for some reason, which it usually does. I have looked at several different forum threads, and nothing seems to be working here. Having taken some information from a few other threads, and experimenting with the command myself, I've come to understand that fdisk -l is somewhat very important in determining problems on this issue, and resolving them. This is what I have:
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Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
223 heads, 52 sectors/track, 13484 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 11596 * 512 = 5937152 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 5245 13484 47775520 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda2 * 362 5244 28311608 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1 361 2093052 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda5 5245 13484 47775494 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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Having quite an advanced knowledge with Windows OS's and servers, this somewhat makes sense but ... YaST2 adds this entry to the menu.lst file pertaining to GRUB when using the auto-add entry:
title Windows XP Professional
chainloader (hd0,4)+1
When attempting to boot, it will display exactly this, and do NOTHING ! ::
chainloader (hd0,4)+1
..That's it.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated,
and I look forward to learning lot's about you're operating system, and what it has to offer -- I kinda like it alot already.
Bye guys,
~ Jer-Bear
